Seth Godin Quotes
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
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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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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.
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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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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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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
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When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.
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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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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
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More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
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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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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!
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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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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.
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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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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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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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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
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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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At the heart of art is learning to see