Seth Godin Quotes
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Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
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When your art fails, make better art.
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You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.
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Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
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One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.
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If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.
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Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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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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Art is what we do when we're truly alive.
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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
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You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.
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What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.
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When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
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Say what you believe and see who follows.
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'
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Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.
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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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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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Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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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.