Seth Godin Quotes
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Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
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Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.
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All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at camp
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So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.
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Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.
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Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.
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You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.
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No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
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I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
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Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
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Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
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What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
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Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.