Seth Godin Quotes
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Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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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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Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
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Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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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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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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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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Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
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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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Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'
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Habits are more powerful than fears.
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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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When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
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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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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Products that are remarkable get talked about.
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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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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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People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?