Seth Godin Quotes
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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
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How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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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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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.
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Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
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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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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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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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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.
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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
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Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.
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Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.
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When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
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Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.