Seth Godin Quotes
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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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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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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
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The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
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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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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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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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Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.
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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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The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
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Be with the ones you love and the ones that love you. Ignore everyone else.
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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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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If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.
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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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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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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 only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.
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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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Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.