Seth Godin Quotes
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.
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The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.
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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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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
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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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How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.
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Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
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Good marketers tell a story.
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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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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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The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.
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Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.
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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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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
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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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Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.
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The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
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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.