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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 30

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More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Anxiety, Information, More Time

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

Sleep, Making Money, Innovators

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

Art, Following Instructions, Needs

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Action, Form, Standards

Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

Giving Up, Opportunity, Hands

"Living with doubt". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 5, 2010.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

Winning, Games, Competition

Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.

Choices, Marketing, Used

It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

Revenge, Moving, Anger

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

Caring, Effort, Advantage

It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

Brave, Next, Frontiers

Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

Pain, Pride, Opportunity

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

Important, Passionate, Products

The conversation is happening about your brand whether you're a part of it or not.

Conversation, Brands, Happenings

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. For now.

Running, Path, Where You Are

Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.

Marketing, Content Marketing, Marketers

Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.

People, Goal, Networking

All Marketers are liars tell stories.

Liars, Stories, Marketers

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

Artist, Skills, Able

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.128, Penguin

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

Blogging, Life Is, Results

"Interview: Seth Godin On How Often To Post To Your Blog". Interview with B.L. Ochman, adage.com. January 12, 2009.

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

School, Government, Boss

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.6, Penguin

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

Moving, Lasts, Firsts

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

People, Criticism, Blame

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.46, Penguin

Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

Brain, Lizards, Shut Up

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

Educational, Loyal Customers, Marketing

The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.

Motivational, Emotional, People

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