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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. "
Seth Godin
Better
You
Reason
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. "
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Fear
" The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. "
Seth Godin
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" I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. "
Seth Godin
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Early
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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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" The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. "
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" The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest. "
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Everyone
Internet
" The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes. "
Seth Godin
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Idea
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" Marketing is a contest for people's attention. "
Seth Godin
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" Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator. "
Seth Godin
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" Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone. "
Seth Godin
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Day
You
" 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. "
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Game
Time
People
" 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. "
Seth Godin
Away
Like
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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. "
Seth Godin
Economics
Long
Money
" The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else. "
Seth Godin
Hate
Game
Home
" Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions. "
Seth Godin
Without
Marketing
Permission
" I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. "
Seth Godin
Find
Decision
Try
" I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue. "
Seth Godin
Communication
Writing
Day
" 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. "
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You
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" When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. "
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" I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. "
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Conversation
Calm
Bridge
" 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. "
Seth Godin
Business
Win
People
" In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. "
Seth Godin
Same
Invisible
Busy
" My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results. "
Seth Godin
Results
Life
Like
" We're not going to outgrow our need for information. "
Seth Godin
Outgrow
Our
Need
" This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. "
Seth Godin
Person
Know
Age
" 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. "
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Risk
Resources
Space
" 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. "
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Leader
Leaders
Look