Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
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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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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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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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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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If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
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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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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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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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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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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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Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.
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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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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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Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.
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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.