Seth Godin Quotes
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The world is begging for you to lead.
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When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.
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Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
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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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We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.
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We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.
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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.
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The opposite of coherent is interesting.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
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The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.
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The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.
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Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
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Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
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My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
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Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.
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If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.
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All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.