Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Communication is the transfer of emotion.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.
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The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.
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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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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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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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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.
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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
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That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
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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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The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.
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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.
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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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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
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Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.
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The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.
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If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.
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Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
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You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.