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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

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Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
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Good marketers tell a story.
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Say what you believe and see who follows.
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The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
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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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Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.
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Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
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The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.
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Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.
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You cannot buy your way to share of voice today you cannot buy attention anymore.
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You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.
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Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
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I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
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Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
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Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.
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