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.
SETH GODINOnce you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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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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Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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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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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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