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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 23

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The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

Expression, Action, Problem

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

Mean, Focus, Difficult

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

School, Government, People

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

Believe, Yesterday, May

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.93, Penguin

Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

Criticism, Way, Serious

Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.51, Penguin

The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

Believe, Opposites, Perfect

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

Motivational, Ladders, Way

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.

Loneliness, Long, Generosity

Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable.

Done, Becoming, Easy

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.158, Penguin

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Broken, Hook, Firsts

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

Important, Use, Might

The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important thing probably isn't even on your agenda.

Important, Agendas, Today

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

Competition, Littles, Reason

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

Business, People, Marketing

What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.

Emotional, People, Marketing

By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

Mean, Fire, Marketing

I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

Successful, Caring, Thinking

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

Motivational, Leadership, Decision

There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.

Opportunity, Focus, Shapes

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

Waiting, Care, Enough

No niche is too small if it's yours.

Niche, Ifs

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.200, Penguin

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

Jobs, Heart, Artist

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

Drawing, Boards, Best Work

Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.

Weakness, Appearance, Knows

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

Ideas, Best Experiences, Fit

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