Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
SETH GODINFitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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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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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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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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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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Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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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.
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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Keep starting until you finish.
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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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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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