"Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness."
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Seth Godin quotes (page 26 of 46)
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"You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training."
"Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety."
"The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth."
"In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for."
"Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers."
"If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living."
"Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else."
"Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work."
"If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway."
"We notice what we choose to notice."
"Say what you believe and see who follows."
"Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new."
"I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got."
"The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see."
"You can't lose. Go, go, go!"
"By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust."
"I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect."
"Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?"
"No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken."