Seth Godin Quotes
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We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.
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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
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Who gets to decide what you want?
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Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.
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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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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
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Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.
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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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We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
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Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.