Seth Godin Quotes
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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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So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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 best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
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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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If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.
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The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
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Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.