Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
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Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
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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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You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
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Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?
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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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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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Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.
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Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.
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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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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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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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Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.
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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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A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
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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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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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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
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If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.