Seth Godin Quotes
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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
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You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
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If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
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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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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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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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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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More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.
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When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?
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By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.
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Keep starting until you finish.
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The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.
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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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Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer
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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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Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.
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Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
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If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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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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Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.