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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 32

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Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

Impact, Achievement, Strategy

A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.

Business, Products

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

Needs, Analogies, Steps

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.

Relationship, Love You

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Leaving, Mediocrity, Building

You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

Winning, Marketing, Attention

In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work

Mind Blowing, Action, Resumes

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

Play, Broken, Trying

Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.

Joy, Consistency, Humanity

The only purpose of starting is to finish

Inspirational, Purpose, Starting

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.99, Penguin

It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'

Art, Innovation, Tails

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.

Legends, Wonder

You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.

Commitment, Years, Needs

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

Real, Attention, Estates

Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

Dream, Careers, Shoes

The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.

Marketing, Care, Reason

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.218, Penguin

The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.

Competition, Marketing, Doe

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.

Emotional, Labor

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

Inspirational, Emotional, Advantage

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Thinking, Entrepreneur, Useless

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

Inspirational, Marketing, Social Media

"What Every Good Marketer Knows" by Seth Godin, seths.blog. May 9, 2005.

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.

Benefits, Rewards, Social Media

Seth Godin (2012). “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

Mean, Reality, Thinking

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

Iphone, Data, Doing Your Best

Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.

Curiosity, Firsts, Facts

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