Seth Godin Quotes
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All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.
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Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
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The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.
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Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.
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Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.
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Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
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Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.
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If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?
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Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead.
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Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.
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Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.
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The future of marketing is leadership
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The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.
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Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
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People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
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Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?
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Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
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We notice what we choose to notice.