Seth Godin Quotes
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You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.
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No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.
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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
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Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.
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It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
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The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.
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If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.
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Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.
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In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.
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Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends
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Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.
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Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
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The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
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All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
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Dig your well before you're thirsty.
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All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.
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Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
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Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.
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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
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Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.
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Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.
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If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
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Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead.