Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
SETH GODINThere’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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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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No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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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 can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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