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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 2

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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Positivity, Long, Strategy

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

Alternatives, Up To You, Way

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

Wise, Wisdom, Clever

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Anxiety, Challenges

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.14, Penguin

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

Adjusting, Today, Chance

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.41, Penguin

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Entrepreneur, World, Social Media

Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.11, Penguin

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

Growing Up, Kids, Greatness

Criticism comes to those who stand out.

Criticism, Standing Out

Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.50, Penguin

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

Motivational, Risk, Boring

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Business, Believe, People

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.138, Penguin

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Marketing, Busy, Invisible

Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter”, p.50, Penguin

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

Differences, People, Waiting

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

Long, Want, Please

The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.

Motivational, Running, Opportunity

If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.

Differences, People, Doubt

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.76, Penguin

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

Waiting, Bars, Mediocrity

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Humor, Generosity, Perfection

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Inspirational, Positive, Positivity

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.94, Penguin

What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.

Answers, Excited, Asks

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

Motivational, Business, Ideas

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

Vision, Resistance, Genuine

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

Keys, Purple, Cows

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Jobs, Positivity, Status Quo

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.5, Penguin

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Choices, Way, Talent

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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