Seth Godin Quotes
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Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
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People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.
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The only purpose of starting is to finish
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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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There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.
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The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.
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Plans are great, but missions are better.
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If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
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You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.
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It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.
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Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.
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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
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The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
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The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!
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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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Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.
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Communication is the transfer of emotion.
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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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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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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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.
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If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.