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Seth Godin

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Quotes by Seth Godin

"When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate."

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Awareness

"I don't know about you, but I judge books by their cover every day."

- Seth Godin

Awareness

"The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about."

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Awareness

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from."

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Balance

"You are not your resume, you are your work."

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Self-awareness

"“You are not your resume, you are your work.”"

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Self-awareness

""You are not your resume, you are your work.""

- Seth Godin

Self-awareness

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."

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Happiness

"People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic."

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Relationships

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something."

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Courage

""If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?""

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Inspiration

"How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

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Motivation

"You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment."

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Motivation

"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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Motivation

"You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment."

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Motivation

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

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Hard Work

"It's always the hard part that creates value."

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Hard Work

"People like us do things like this."

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Teamwork

"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."

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Leadership

""Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then… do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.""

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Leadership

"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow."

- Seth Godin

Leadership

"Leadership is about giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."

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Leadership

"When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter."

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Growth

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something."

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Aspirations

"You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself."

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Empowerment

"You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make a choice."

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Ambition

"Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules."

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Ambition

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

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Ambition

"Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion."

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Ambition

""Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion.""

- Seth Godin

Ambition

"The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average."

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Ambition

"Doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve been getting."

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Change

"Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late."

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Change

""Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.""

- Seth Godin

Change

"Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late."

- Seth Godin

Change

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something."

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Failure

"Failure is simply feedback. We need to learn from it and change."

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Learning from Mistakes

"The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact… those people have goals."

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Goals

"Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific."

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Focus

"Only a fool does something new and thinks it will work for sure. Only a failure refuses to try something that might not work."

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Taking Risks

"Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you’ve got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don’t start, you never get a chance."

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Taking Risks

"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."

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Taking Risks

"Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is."

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New Beginnings

"Sooner or later your work speaks for itself. Outlasting critics feel like it will take a very long time, but you’re more patient than they are."

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Perseverance

"Anxiety is just repeatedly experiencing failure in advance."

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Mindfulness

"Don’t try to be the ‘next.’ Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new."

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Originality

"The organizations that succeed realize that offering a remarkable product with a great story is more important and more profitable than doing what everyone else is doing just a bit better."

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Originality

"Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers."

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Adaptation

""Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.""

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Adaptation

"Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it."

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Facing Fears

"Make it simple; complexity doesn't mean better."

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Simplicity

"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers."

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Empathy

"If you measure it, it will improve."

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Efficiency

"There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them."

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Drive

"There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them."

- Seth Godin

Drive