Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Products that are remarkable get talked about.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.
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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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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.
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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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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 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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All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
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Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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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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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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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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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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If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
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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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No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
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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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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.