Seth Godin Quotes
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Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
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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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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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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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Keep starting until you finish.
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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 best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
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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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If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.
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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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Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.
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Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.
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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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Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.