Seth Godin Quotes
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Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
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The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
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What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.
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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
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Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message
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If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
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The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!
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Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?
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Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
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Anything worth achieving in life has a dip
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter Fail often Ship Lead, don't manage so much Seek out uncomfortable situations Make an impact on the people who matter to you Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else Copyedit less, invent more Give more speeches Ignore unsolicited advice
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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
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Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
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Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.
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A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.
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The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.
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Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.
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You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.