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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 21

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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

Careers, Errors, Effort

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.27, Penguin

Choose your customers, choose your future.

Business, Your Future, Our Future

Twitter post from Nov 12, 2009

Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.

Choices, Given, Picks

The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

Life, Motivational, Work

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

Obscurity, Problem, Piracy

If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?

Marketing, Ifs, Millions

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Art, Passion, Combination

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.82, Penguin

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

Average, Firsts, Revolution

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

Ideas, Hot Sauce, Want

"How to get your ideas to spread". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2003.

The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

Responsibility, Unhappy, Fiduciary

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

Motivational, Jobs, Work

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.11, Penguin

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

Marketing, Management

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

Needs, Students, Embrace

Everyone is not your customer.

Business, Customers

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

Moments, Remarkable, Leap

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Generosity, Choices, Emergencies

The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.

Educational, Feelings, Purpose

FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Oct 25, 2012

But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

Mean, Thinking, Essence

"What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.

Running, Media, Games

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

Mean, Want, Hard

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

Art, Mean, Art Is

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

Real, Goal, Problem

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Book, Writing, Inspire

Great work is always shunned at first.

Firsts, Great Work

And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.

Obvious Things, Choices, Littles

"What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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