Seth Godin Quotes
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Be with the ones you love and the ones that love you. Ignore everyone else.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
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We notice what we choose to notice.
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The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.
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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
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Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.
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Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.
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Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
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If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
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It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.
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A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
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Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
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By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.
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There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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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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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
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Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.