Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Ideas that spread win.
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Play a new game, not the older game but faster.
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It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.
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When your art fails, make better art.
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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).
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If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.
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You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
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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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I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
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You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.
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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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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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If you measure it, it will improve.
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Art is what we do when we're truly alive.
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Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.
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You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.
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It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.
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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
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Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
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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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Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.