Seth Godin Quotes
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Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?
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Keep starting until you finish.
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No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?
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When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.
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Marketing begins before the product is launched.
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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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It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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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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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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Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
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If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more
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You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
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The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Skepticism doesn't help you hear.
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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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Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
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Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.
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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.