Seth Godin Quotes
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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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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Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.
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The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.
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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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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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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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Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
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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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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
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It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
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If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.
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Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.
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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.