Seth Godin Quotes
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The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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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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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
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The only purpose of starting is to finish
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Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter Fail often Ship Lead, don't manage so much Seek out uncomfortable situations Make an impact on the people who matter to you Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else Copyedit less, invent more Give more speeches Ignore unsolicited advice
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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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The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important thing probably isn't even on your agenda.
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.
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Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.
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Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
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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 define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
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The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.
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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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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
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Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do. We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.
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What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.
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Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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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.