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...

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

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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.

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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...

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

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