Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
SETH GODINThe problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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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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If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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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.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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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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Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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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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The less people know, the more they yell.
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