Seth Godin Quotes
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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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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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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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
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The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
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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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When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.
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One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
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Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.
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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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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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Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.
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So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.
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Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
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So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.