Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.
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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.
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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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Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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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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Shame must be accepted to be effective.
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It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
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Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
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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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Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
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Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
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The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.
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Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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No one is as smart as all of us.
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Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?