Seth Godin Quotes
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Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
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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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If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.
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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
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A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
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Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
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If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.
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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?
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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.
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Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.
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Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.
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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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I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.
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If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
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Keep starting until you finish.
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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
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If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.