Seth Godin Quotes — Page 25

Author, Entrepreneur

Creative

“Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!”

Ideas Littles Factories

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Seth Godin

Author, Entrepreneur

Courageous

“Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over”

Careers Effort Errors

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Determined

“The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.”

Path Doing Nothing

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Determined

“The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.”

Way Fool

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Grateful

“Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.”

People Successful Generosity

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Spiritual

“I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.”

Writing Life Work

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Determined

“If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.”

Best Effort Worth Waiting For

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Confident

“Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.”

Want Team

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Confident

“When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself”

Care Take Care Revenue

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Courageous

“Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.”

Life Motivational Work

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Motivated

“The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).”

Writing Running Home

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Motivated

“Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.”

People Might Arguing

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