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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 17

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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

Video, Action, Happens

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Pain, Choices, Saying Yes

Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.

Marketing, Junk, Doe

Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

Smart, Organization, People

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.41, Penguin

Whining isn't a scalable solution.

Whining, Solutions

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Creative, Answers, Findings

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Done, Imagine, Ifs

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

Expectations, Excellence, Quality

You can't win by being more average than average.

Winning, Average, Can't Win

Interview with Tamara Adlin, adlininc.com. August 27, 2007.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Business, Acceptance, Perfect

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.46, Penguin

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

Jobs, Believe, People

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps

Wings, People, Safety

The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

Artist, Accomplish Your Goals, Differences

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

Example, Bars, Facts

Seth Godin (2015). “We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal”, p.49, Penguin

If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.

Believe, Ideas, Faults

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

Believe, Risk, Want

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.91, Penguin

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

Ideas, Motivational Business, Enough

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

Leader, World, Als

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Generous

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

Keys, Acting, Reputation

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Art, Pieces, Wonder

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.77, Penguin

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.

Running, Distance, Tired

"Fear of shipping". sethgodin.typepad.com. June 11, 2010.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Successful, Organization, Secret

Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.20, Penguin

Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.

Workout, Data, Decision

People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

Responsibility, People, Taking Responsibility

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