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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 24

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This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

Art, Might, Anticipation

The future of marketing is leadership

Marketing

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

Ideas, Care, Matter

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

What If, Bigger, Ifs

In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

Art, Passion, Ideas

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Art, Inspirational Life, Ideas

Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want

Water, Competition, Want

When your art fails, make better art.

Art, Deception, Failing

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

Design, Marketing, Influence

Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.93, Penguin

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

Struggle, Ideas, People

"Most people, most of the time (the perfect crowd fallacy)". sethgodin.typepad.com. March 25, 2013.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

Opportunity, Dancing, Choices

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

Teamwork, Breathing, Stories

Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.202, Penguin

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Leadership, Management, Reaching

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

Believe, Live Life, People

Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.

Mistake, Trying, Failing

Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !

Thinking, Chance, Permission

But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

Writing, Talking, Eggs

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

Thinking, Self, Goal

If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.

Life Changing, Stupid, Hands

"Thinking about money". sethgodin.typepad.com. June 30, 2013.

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

Ideas, Bigger

... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

Thinking, Organization, Succeed

No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.

Morning, Block, Wake Up

Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

People, Laptops, Computer

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Hard Work, Firsts, Responsible

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

Ideas, Select, Produce

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