Seth Godin Quotes

Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
SETH GODIN

Circles Dream Outcomes
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
SETH GODIN

Criticism Honor Ruins
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
You are not your resume, you are your work.
SETH GODIN

Business Inspiring Motivational
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
SETH GODIN

Lesson Making Mistakes
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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Dead Ends Ends Situation
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
SETH GODIN

Anxiety Challenges Experience
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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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Failure Fear Perseverance
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
SETH GODIN

Long Matter Tests
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
SETH GODIN

Bases Firsts Matter
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
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
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Creating Value Falling Love People
The person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
SETH GODIN

Brands Nothing Stand
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
SETH GODIN

Entrepreneur Social Media World
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.
SETH GODIN

Believe Games Rules Thinking

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