The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

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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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Allowed Connecting Everyone Instead

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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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Against Align Because Change

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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.

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Anything Day Gone Know

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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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Being Charisma Gives Leader

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Dig your well before you're thirsty.

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Before Dig Thirsty Well

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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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About Connections Future Having

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A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

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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.

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

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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.

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Away Competition Find Invent

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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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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.

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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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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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We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

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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.

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Build Company Enterprise Fails

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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.

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Chart Doing Feel Fill

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

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Decision Find Made More

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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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Face Going Kickstarter Limited

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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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Act Available Blog Doing

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

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Basically Blogging Improves Life

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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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About Actively Autism Care

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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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"26 Seth Godin Quotes & Sayings

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Seth Godin

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

Seth Godin

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.

Seth Godin

Seth Godin

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.

Seth Godin

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

Seth Godin

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

Seth Godin

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Seth Godin

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

Seth Godin

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

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

Seth Godin

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

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

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

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.

Seth Godin

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.

Seth Godin

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

Seth Godin

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.

Seth Godin

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.

Seth Godin

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

Seth Godin

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

Seth Godin

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.

Seth Godin

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

Seth Godin

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

Seth Godin

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

Seth Godin

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

Seth Godin

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