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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 10

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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.

Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.

Delight, Skeptic, Believer

It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.

Fun, Trying, Ping Pong

We notice what we choose to notice.

Choices

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

Challenges, Mediocrity, Status Quo

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

Entrepreneur, Thirsty, Wells

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

Upset, Status Quo, Ifs

"The tribes we lead". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2009.

The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

Real, People, Tribes

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.6, Penguin

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

Looks, Detours, Shortcuts

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

Doing Nothing, Path, Tribes

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.59, Penguin

Who gets to decide what you want?

Choices, Want, What You Want

Twitter post from Aug 31, 2009

What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?

Mind, Needs, Evidence

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

Data, Information

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

Marketing, Attention, Making Money

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

Connections, Delight, Surprise

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

Leadership, Teamwork, Mean

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.

Firsts, Genuine, First Time

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

Acceptance, Ideas, Rejection

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

Failure Is Not An Option, Ifs

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

Perfect, Goal, Important

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

Art, Alive, Art Is

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.16, Penguin

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

Inspirational, Business, Trying

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future”, p.149, Hachette UK

The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.

Way, Very Good, Grows

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.215, Penguin

Soon is not as good as now.

Time Management

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.

Gratitude, Opportunity

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Thinking, Self, Things To Do

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