Seth Godin Quotes
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Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
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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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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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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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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
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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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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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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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Great work is always shunned at first.
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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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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
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Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.
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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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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
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The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
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Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.
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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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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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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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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.