Seth Godin Quotes
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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.
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Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.
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One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.
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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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The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
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What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
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Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
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Products that are remarkable get talked about.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
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Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
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No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
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The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.
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If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.
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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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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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Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.