Seth Godin Quotes
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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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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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
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Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
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Be with the ones you love and the ones that love you. Ignore everyone else.
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We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.
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If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.
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Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
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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 job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
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If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
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The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.
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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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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.
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Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.
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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
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Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.
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The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.
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If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.
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When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.