Seth Godin Quotes
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If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
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It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
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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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Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.
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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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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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Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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The less people know, the more they yell.
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Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.
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The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.
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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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Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
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Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
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Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.
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People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
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People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.
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The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.