Seth Godin Quotes
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What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
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The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
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Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.
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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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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.
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In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
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If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
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The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Traditional sales and marketing involves increasing market shares, which means selling as much of your product as you can to as many customers as possible. One-to-one marketing involves driving for a share of customer, which means ensuring that each individual customer who buys your product buys more product, buys only your brand, and is happy using your product instead of another to solve his problem. The true, current value of any one customer is a function of the customer's future purchases, across all the product lines, brands, and services offered by you.
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The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.
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The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.
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My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.
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More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
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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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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.
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No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.
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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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Soon is not as good as now.
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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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Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.