Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
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The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.
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The world is begging for you to lead.
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A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
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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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Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
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Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.
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Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
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Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
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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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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.
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Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
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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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If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.