Seth Godin Quotes
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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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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
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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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You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.
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When your art fails, make better art.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
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Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
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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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I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
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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.
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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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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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Art is what we do when we're truly alive.
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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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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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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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Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.
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You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.
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Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.