Seth Godin Quotes
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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.
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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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The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!
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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
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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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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
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Good marketers tell a story.
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Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
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Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
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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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... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.
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If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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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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Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
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The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win
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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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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.