At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
SETH GODINSomewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Art is a personal act of courage.
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Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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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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Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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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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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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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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Soon is not as good as now.
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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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Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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