Seth Godin Quotes
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Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
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The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.
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It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.
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The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
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Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.
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Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.
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Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.
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Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.
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If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.
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Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
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The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.
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It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
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People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.
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If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
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No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
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Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
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I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.