Seth Godin Quotes
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Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.
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What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
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Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
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The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.
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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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If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more
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You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.
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The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.
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Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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The job is not the work.
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The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
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If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
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What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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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.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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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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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things