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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 25

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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Long, Secret, Lists

Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass.

Jobs, Leader, Pockets

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

Art, Practice, Creating

Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.

Real, Talking, Marketing

Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do. We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.

Character, Thinking, People

Content marketing is the only marketing left

Marketing, Content Marketing, Left

How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.

Inspirational, Inspiration, Enemy

If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

Kids, Ideas, Way

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.53, Penguin

When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.

Doubt, When In Doubt

Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer

Opportunity, Play, Dumb

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

Doors, Humanity, Hustle

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.89, Penguin

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

People, Different, Way

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.28, Penguin

Think big. Start small.

Thinking, Think Big, Bigs

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

Believe, Unhappy, Unhappiness

Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.

Waiting, Proactive, Picks

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

Mistake, Thinking, Goal

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

Smart, Believe, People

Seth Godin (2009). “All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All”, p.14, Penguin

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Hands, Way Forward, Easier

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Unhappy, Enough Time, Tribes

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.

Thinking, Expectations, Bars

The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

Thinking, Self, Creating

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Excellence, Specs, Meetings

If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.

Motivational, Wisdom, Business

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.117, Penguin

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

Book, Hard Work, Impact

"Who's telling you the truth about your online personal marketing?". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 21, 2008.

The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.

Writing, Mean, People

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