Seth Godin Quotes
An American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
(1960 - )
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. So why not be great?
[Mediocrity]
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'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'
[Teamwork]
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A lens gives context. When it succeeds, it delivers meaning.
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A long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
[Conversation]
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Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.
[Advertising]
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Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person.
[Ideas]
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Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
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As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.
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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
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Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.
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Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
[Ideas]
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Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
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Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
[Change]
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Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
[Change]
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.
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Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.
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