Seth Godin Quotes
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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.
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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.
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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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The future of marketing is leadership
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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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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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A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.
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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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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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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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If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
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Great work is always shunned at first.
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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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Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
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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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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.