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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 28

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Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Progress, Foundation, Guessing

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

Marketing, Overcoming, Stories

If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.

Organization, Ideas, Knowing

How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

Hero, Discovery, Two

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.28, Penguin

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

Jobs, Important, Stranger

The job is not the work.

Jobs, Conformist

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.85, Penguin

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

Matter, Built, Ifs

Competence is no longer scarce.

Competence, Scarce

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.16, Penguin

Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?

Forever, Different, Results

If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

Running, Reality, Perfect

When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?

Water, Swim, Who Cares

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

Opportunity, People, Giving

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

Motivational, Success, Blow

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.

Opportunity, People, Marketing

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.

Art, Communication, Thinking

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

Magic, Littles, Way

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

Way, Working It, Refuse

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

Hard Work, Promise, World

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

Hands, Problem, Grudge

Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter Fail often Ship Lead, don't manage so much Seek out uncomfortable situations Make an impact on the people who matter to you Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else Copyedit less, invent more Give more speeches Ignore unsolicited advice

Art, Impact, Skills

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

Games, Play, Different

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.70, Penguin

Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?

Marketing, Messages, Want

Seth Godin (2012). “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Powerful, Habit

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

Art, Creating, Maps

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.7, Penguin

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.

Technology, Hands, Competition

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