Seth Godin Quotes
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You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
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Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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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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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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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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Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.
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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work 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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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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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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But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.
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Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
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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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Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
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Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.
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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 status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.