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Seth Godin is a renowned author, speaker, and marketing expert. His works cover a wide range of fields including business, marketing, and entrepreneurship, and have won the favor of readers worldwide. Godin's books such as 'Purple Cow' and 'Free' have had a profound impact globally.

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Famous Seth Godin Quotes

“Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.”

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Book:Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

“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.”

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“Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.”

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“Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.”

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“The world is begging for you to lead.”

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“The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.”

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“The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.”

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“And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.”

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“The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.”

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Book:The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Source: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

“We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.”

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“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

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Book:Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

“Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.”

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“I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.”

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“All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.”

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Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“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.”

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“In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.”

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“The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.”

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“Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.”

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“It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.”

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“If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.”

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“Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.”

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“The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.”

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“Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.”

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“We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.”

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“Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.”

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“When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.”

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“If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.”

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“Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.”

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“The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.”

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“The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.”