Seth Godin Quotes
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I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.
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The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.
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Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
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I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!
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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.
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The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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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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Communication is the transfer of emotion.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.
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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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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
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Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.
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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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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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We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
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In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.