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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. -

Seth Godin

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Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
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