Seth Godin Quotes
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If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
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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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Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.
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There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.
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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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Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
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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.
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The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
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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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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
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The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).
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Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.
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Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.
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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.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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No niche is too small if it's yours.
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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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Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
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The future of marketing is leadership
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If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
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I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.