Seth Godin Quotes
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If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
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Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
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If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
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Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
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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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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
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Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.
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Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?
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You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.
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Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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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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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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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
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Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.
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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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Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.