Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
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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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At the heart of art is learning to see
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You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
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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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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.
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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.
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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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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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Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.
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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
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The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.
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Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer
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The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
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Skepticism doesn't help you hear.
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Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
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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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If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
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Marketing used to be what you say. Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.
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What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?