Seth Godin Quotes
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
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People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!
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Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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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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The conversation is happening about your brand whether you're a part of it or not.
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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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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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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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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
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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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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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Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.
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Say what you believe and see who follows.
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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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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Habits are more powerful than fears.
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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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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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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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I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
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Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.