Seth Godin Quotes
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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
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It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
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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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The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.
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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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You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.
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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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We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.
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The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.
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The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
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The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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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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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.
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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 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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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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The only purpose of starting is to finish
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Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
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You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.
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If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.