Seth Godin Quotes
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If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.
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Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
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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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Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
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Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.
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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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Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
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Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
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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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Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.
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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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Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
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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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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
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Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.
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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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It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
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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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If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.