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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Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

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When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.

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Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

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Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

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Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

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Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

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What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

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Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

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The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

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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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We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

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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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While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

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Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

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I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

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Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

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There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

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Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.

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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

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If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

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Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?

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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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Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

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The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

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The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

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