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" I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that. "

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Seth Godin

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Happy

" Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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People

" 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. "

" The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before. "

" 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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Business

College

" Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing. "

" Dig your well before you're thirsty. "

" 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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Boat

Lake

" 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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" I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. "

" 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. "

" When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. "

" Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Marketing is a contest for people's attention. "

" My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results. "

Seth Godin

Results

Life

" Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. "

" 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. "

" The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. "

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