Seth Godin Quotes
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I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
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The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.
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If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.
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But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
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Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
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More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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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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Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.
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There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.
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Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?
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We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.
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There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.