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First Quotes by Seth Godin
- Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
- Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who…
- The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
- Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
- Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy…
- The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No,…
- Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to…
- Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in…
- The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference,…
- You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing…
- Great work is always shunned at first.
- The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).
- Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.
- The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no…
- I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books,…
More First Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong