Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.
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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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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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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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I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
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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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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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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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We fail when we give up too soon.
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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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Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.
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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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You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.
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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps
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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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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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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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No niche is too small if it's yours.
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Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.
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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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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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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.