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Seth Godin

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
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
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
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work

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