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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 20

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Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options

Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

Powerful, Artist, Important

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.

Art, Wall, Creativity

When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.

Dream, Art, Mean

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

Ideas, People, Realizing

FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Aug 21, 2013

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.32, Penguin

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

Thinking, People, Crafts

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

Fire, Support, Marketing

I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

Humility, Offending, People

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

Broken, Needs, Slides

Seth Godin (2004). “Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow”, p.97, Penguin

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

Journey, Design, Delight

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

Comfort, Habit, Considering

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

Culture, Pessimistic, Thanks

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

Genuine, Remarkable, Connecting

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

Goal, Scary, Hook

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

Art, People, Creative

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “ “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “ “Everyone is not your customer. “ “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Fire, People, Trying

In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.

Believe, People, Choices

Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.

Greatness, Relevant

Seth Godin (2012). “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

Simple, Ideas, Years

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

Ideas, Littles, Factories

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

People, Marketing, Stories

In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.

Giving, Cost, Benefits

Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.

Art, Might, Causes

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Dream, Needs, World

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

Grace, Connections, Scarce

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