Seth Godin Quotes
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Ideas that spread win.
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We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?
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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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Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.
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Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
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You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.
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Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
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Data is not useful until it becomes information.
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Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
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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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A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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The enemy of fear is creativity.
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.
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The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.
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Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
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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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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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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).