Seth Godin Quotes
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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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When your art fails, make better art.
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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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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.
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Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
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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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Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.
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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.
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The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.
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Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.
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Play a new game, not the older game but faster.
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
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Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.
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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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Shame must be accepted to be effective.
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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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Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.
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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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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).