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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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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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
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Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
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The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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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.
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Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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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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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
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The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Keep starting until you finish.
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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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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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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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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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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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One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.
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Soon is not as good as now.