Seth Godin Quotes
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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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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The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.
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Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
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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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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
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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.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
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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 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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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
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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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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 real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.
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You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.
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Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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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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The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.
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Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.