Seth Godin Quotes
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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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There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
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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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Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.
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Criticism comes to those who stand out.
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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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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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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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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
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Marketing begins before the product is launched.
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An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
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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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Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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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.
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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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Be with the ones you love and the ones that love you. Ignore everyone else.
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Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.