Seth Godin Quotes
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Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
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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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Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
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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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One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.
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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
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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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If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.
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Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.
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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 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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Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.
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The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
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A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.
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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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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 can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
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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.