Seth Godin Quotes
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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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You can't lose. Go, go, go!
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Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
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Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.
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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
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But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.
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Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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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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No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
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Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
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You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
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The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.
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We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.
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Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Products that are remarkable get talked about.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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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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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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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.