Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.
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Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
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Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.
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The only purpose of starting is to finish
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It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
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Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.
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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
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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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The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
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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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Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
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What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
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Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
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Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.
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Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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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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There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.