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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 19

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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

Team, Want, Saying No

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

Winning, Ideas, People

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Mind Your Own Business, Tyranny, Poke

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.21, Penguin

The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.

Mean, Unique, People

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Art, Decision, Looking Forward

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

Friday, Media, Black

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

Voice, Vocabulary, People

"Inside Seth Godin's Blogging Philosophy". Interview with Josh Bernoff, adage.com. July 13, 2009.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

Winning, Training, Gold

In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

Motivational, Sports, Winning

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.71, Penguin

Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

Art, Passion, Caring

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

Life, Work, Lunch

The person who fails the most wins.

Winning, Failing, Persons

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.39, Penguin

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

Differences, Criticism, Making A Difference

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

Strategy, Used

"Strategy matters more than ever". sethgodin.typepad.com. July 23, 2012.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Skills, Born

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.47, Penguin

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

Moving, Ideas, Voice

I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

Falling In Love, Struggle, Organization

The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.

Mirrors, Important, Next

You can't lose. Go, go, go!

Positivity, Loses

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.

Bullying, Games, Play

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

Goal, Gone, Maps

The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.

Motivational, Information, Produce

The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.

Goal, Three, Fiction

Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.

Nature, Reality, Expectations

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Generosity, Bravery, Fans

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.34, Penguin

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