Seth Godin Quotes
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The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.
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The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
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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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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
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You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.
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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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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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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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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.
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I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.
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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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The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.
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Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.
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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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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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Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.
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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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Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.