Seth Godin Quotes
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Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
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Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
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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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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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Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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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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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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As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
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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.
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'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'
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Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
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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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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
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Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
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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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Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.
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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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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
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Products that are remarkable get talked about.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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Habits are more powerful than fears.