Seth Godin Quotes
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
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Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
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I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
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The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
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Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
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Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.
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School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.
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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
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Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.
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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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Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
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When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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You can't lose. Go, go, go!
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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.