Seth Godin Quotes
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The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
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Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
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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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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.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.
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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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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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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
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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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If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
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Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.
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If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.
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We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
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The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.
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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.