Seth Godin Quotes
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Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
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If you want to be a leader, go lead
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It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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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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Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.
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The world is begging for you to lead.
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We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.
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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.
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Marketing begins before the product is launched.
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By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.
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Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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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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You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.
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Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.
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If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
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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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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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We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.
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The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
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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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No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.
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More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
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Go ahead, do something impossible.