Seth Godin Quotes

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Seth Godin

Profession : Writer

Birth : July 10, 1960

Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.

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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.

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Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.

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If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

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The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.

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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

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Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

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A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

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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, not the first.

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If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

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We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

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I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

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Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

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One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

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