Seth Godin Quotes
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We notice what we choose to notice.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.
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I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.
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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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Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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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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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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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
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Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.
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If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.
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We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
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Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.
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If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
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Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
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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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You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
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The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.
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Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.