Seth Godin Quotes
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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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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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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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Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.
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You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.
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Communication is the transfer of emotion.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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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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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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The opposite of coherent is interesting.
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The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.
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Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.
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Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
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Data is not useful until it becomes information.
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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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When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.