Seth Godin Quotes
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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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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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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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By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.
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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 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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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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Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !
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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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The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
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When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?
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We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.
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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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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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Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.
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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.
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One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
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The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.
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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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An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.
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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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The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.