Seth Godin Quotes
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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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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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Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
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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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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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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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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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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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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
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I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.
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How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.
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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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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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And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.