Seth Godin Quotes
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You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
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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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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
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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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Who gets to decide what you want?
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By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.
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You can't lose. Go, go, go!
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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
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Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
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Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.
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One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.
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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
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If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
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If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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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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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.