If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
SETH GODINChange isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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The person who fails the most wins.
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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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More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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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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If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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The less people know, the more they yell.
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You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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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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