Seth Godin Quotes
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Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.
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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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Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.
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Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
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The world is begging for you to lead.
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Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
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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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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
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Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
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What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.
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A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
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It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.
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Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.
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My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
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Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
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That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.
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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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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
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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.