Seth Godin Quotes
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Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.
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You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.
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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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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.
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Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.
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The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
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The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
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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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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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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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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.