Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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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 best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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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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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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Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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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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Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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