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Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
Author
Blogger
Computer Scientist
Economist
Entrepreneur
Writer
Mount Vernon
New York
Remarkable
Connection
Connections
Delight
Surprise

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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
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Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.
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The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.
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I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?
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Don't fix me Love me for what's broken.
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No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
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Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.
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Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.
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If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.
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Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.
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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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You can't win by being more average than average.
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Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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No niche is too small if it's yours.
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If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.
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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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Plans are great, but missions are better.
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Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do. We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.
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