Seth Godin Quotes
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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.
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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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The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
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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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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
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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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Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.
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Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
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If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.
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Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
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In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.
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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
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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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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.
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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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The only purpose of starting is to finish
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By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.
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Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
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Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.