Seth Godin Quotes
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The enemy of fear is creativity.
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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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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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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.
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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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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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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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The world is begging for you to lead.
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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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Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
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All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
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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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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.
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Be with the ones you love and the ones that love you. Ignore everyone else.
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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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It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
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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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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can't see it but it's happening, daily.
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Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.