Seth Godin quotes - page 3

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever. (Seth Godin)
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. View quote
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. View quote
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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Seth Godin)
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power. View quote
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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. View quote
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results. View quote
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice. View quote
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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate. View quote
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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers. View quote
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself. View quote
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation. View quote
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The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. View quote
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. (Seth Godin)
Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations. View quote
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As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus. View quote
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If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. View quote
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Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading. View quote
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