Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
SETH GODINDon’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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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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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The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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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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If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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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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Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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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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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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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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The less people know, the more they yell.
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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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