Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
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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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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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If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.
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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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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
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I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
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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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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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If you want to be a leader, go lead
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If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
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No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things
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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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The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
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Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.