Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
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We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.
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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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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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Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
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The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
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The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.
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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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Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.
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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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Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.
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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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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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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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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.
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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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Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
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When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.