Seth Godin Quotes
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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
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One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
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I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
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Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.
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The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.
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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
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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
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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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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win
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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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You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.
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A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
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Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.
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Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
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Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.