Seth Godin Quotes
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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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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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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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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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All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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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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I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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The job is not the work.
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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
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Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.
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Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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When your art fails, make better art.
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The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
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Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
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The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
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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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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 only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.