Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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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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Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.
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In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.
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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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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
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Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
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Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
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The future of marketing is leadership
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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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Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.
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If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.
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All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at camp
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The less people know, the more they yell.
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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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If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?
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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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But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
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Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.