Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
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At the heart of art is learning to see
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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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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
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In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
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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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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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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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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 job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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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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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.