Seth Godin Quotes
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Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
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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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If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.
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Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
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Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.
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The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.
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Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
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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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Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
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The brand of the future...is patient, consistent, connected, and trusted. The new brand is based on the truth that only comes from experiencing the product, not just yelling about it. Word of mouth is more important (by a factor of 20) than TV advertising, and the remarkability word of mouth demands comes from what we experience, not from spin or taglines or a campaign slogan.
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The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
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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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The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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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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Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
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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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Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
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Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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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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Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations
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There's no map for being an artist.