Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.
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When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.
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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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Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
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The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing
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The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.
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It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
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I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!
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You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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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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Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
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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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Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.