Seth Godin Quotes
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Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.
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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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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Keep starting until you finish.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.
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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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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
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Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.