Seth Godin Quotes
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Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
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Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.
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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
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Play a new game, not the older game but faster.
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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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The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.
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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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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.
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It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.
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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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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
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But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.
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I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.
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Habits are more powerful than fears.
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Ideas that spread win.
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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.