Seth Godin Quotes
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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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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 only purpose of starting is to finish
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What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
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Skepticism doesn't help you hear.
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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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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.
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Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
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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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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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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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Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
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The opposite of coherent is interesting.
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Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing