Seth Godin Quotes
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Criticism comes to those who stand out.
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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
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Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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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 art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
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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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Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.
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When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
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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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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.
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Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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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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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
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Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
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Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.
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Good marketers tell a story.
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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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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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... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.