Seth Godin Quotes
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.
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Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
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You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.
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If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
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Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
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Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.
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Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations
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The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
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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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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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Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
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When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.
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It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'
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As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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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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No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
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If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
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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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Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.