Seth Godin Quotes
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Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
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How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
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People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
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The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).
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Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.
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As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.
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The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.
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Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
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Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?
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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
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I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.
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What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
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Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.
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Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.
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I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!
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People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.
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Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
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One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Plans are great, but missions are better.
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The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.
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Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.