Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Seth Godin Quotes - Page 16

All Quotes Acceptance Advertising Age Anxiety Art Belief Blame Bravery Business Caring Challenges Change Choices Communication Competition Confusion Creativity Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Design Desire Doubt Effort Empathy Environment Excellence Expectations Extras Failing Failure Fear Fun Generosity Genius Giving Giving Up Gold Greatness Hard Work Heart Hills Home Hook Humanity Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Internet Journey Joy Labor Leadership Life Listening Making A Difference Making Money Management Marketing Mediocrity Meetings Motivation Motivational Opportunity Overcoming Pain Painting Passion Perfection Perseverance Positive Thinking Positivity Progress Purpose Quality Quitting Reading Reality Rejection Reputation Responsibility Revolution Risk Running Safety School Social Media Strategy Struggle Students Study Success Talent Team Technology Today Training Values Vision Waiting Wall Water Winning Work Worry Writing

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Perfect, Definitions, Revolution

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Coal, Canaries, Mines

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.

Hate, Home, Games

Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.

True Friend, Feel Better, Giving

Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

Progress, Tasks, Path

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Media, Use, Stranger

One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.

Keys, Trying, Something New

Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

Confusion, Choices, Faces

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.33, Penguin

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).

Admitting, Firsts, Steps

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

Connections, Engagement, Dialogue

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

Kings, Leader, Crave

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

Business, Commitment, Organization

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.132, Penguin

The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

Creativity, Creative, Enemy

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

Writing, Decision, Trying

No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

Play, Differences, Making A Difference

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

Marketing, Stuff, Males

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

Jobs, Opportunity, People

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

Differences, Making A Difference, News

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Successful, Two, Elements

One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

Struggle, Differences, Making A Difference

If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out. Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

People, Marketing, Criticism

Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.

Believe

Seth Godin (2009). “All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All”, p.6, Penguin

Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

Choices

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

A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.

Customers, Products, Ifs

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

Cliffs, Strategy, Routes

You May Also Like: