Seth Godin Quotes
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.
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Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
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Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.
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What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.
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Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
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The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
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Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.
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The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
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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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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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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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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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Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
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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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Everyone is not your customer.
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.
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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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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?