Seth Godin Quotes

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• Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
• If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
• The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
• Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you…
• The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.
• Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
• The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
• You can't lose. Go, go, go!
• One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.
• If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
• All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish,…
• Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
• If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
• You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some…
• Competence is the enemy of change!
• It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your…
• Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
• Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
• Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
• Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

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