Seth Godin Quotes
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Keep starting until you finish.
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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 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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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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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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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
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How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.
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If you measure it, it will improve.
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Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
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If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
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Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
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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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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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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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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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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
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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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No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things