Seth Godin Quotes
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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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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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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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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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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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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
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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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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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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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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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I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
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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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The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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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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A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
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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 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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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 people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
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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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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
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The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win