Seth Godin Quotes
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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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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Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
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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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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
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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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Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.
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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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People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.
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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
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The future of marketing is leadership
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You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.
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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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You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
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You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.
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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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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.