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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 27

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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.

Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.

Tomorrow, Speak

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

Greatness, Matter, Rooms

It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.

Opportunity, Thinking, People

The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.

Way, Path, Wrong Path

Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

Doors, World, Way

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

Somewhere Else, Choices, Proud

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

Change, Games, Cost

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

Journey, Talking, People

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

Change, Definitions, Things Change

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.46, Penguin

If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

Change, Needs, Want

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

Business, Ideas, Trump

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

Business, Lists, Process

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

Unique, People, Different

"Transforming the Workplace: Critical Skills and Learning Methods for the Successful 21st Century Worker" by Sam Herring, bigthink.com.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

Team, Writing, Technology

Seth Godin (2013). “Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.233, Penguin UK

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

Regret, Long, Choices

"Sooner or later, the critics move on". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 24, 2015.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

Perfect, Goal, Definitions

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.195, Penguin

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Ifs

It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.

Responsibility, Water, Way

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.

Art, Winning, Advice

Competent people are the most resistant to change

People, Competent

The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.

People, Peers, Way

"The easiest way to thrive as an outlier". sethgodin.typepad.com. October 1, 2012.

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip

Dip, Achieve

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

Business, Taken, Writing

Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

Mean, Perfection, Promise

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

Messages, Easier, Microphones

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