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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The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.
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The less people know, the more they yell.
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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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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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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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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
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The future of marketing is leadership
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.
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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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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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What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
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If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?
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Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.
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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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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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All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at camp
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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.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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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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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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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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No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.