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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 33

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Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest

Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

Real, Believe, Ideas

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.

Love, Motivational, Broken

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.76, Penguin

We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.

Differences, People, Making A Difference

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

Motivational, Humanity, Needs

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.72, Penguin

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

Phones, People, Marketing

Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.

Long, Entrepreneur, Creative

Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.

Smart, Dedication, Marketing

I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.

Wall, Writing, Mean

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

Thinking, Design, Might

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

Perfect, Revolution, Impossible

The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

Teacher, Writing, Ideas

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

Fashion, Unexpected, Unexpected Places

If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?

Cat, Thinking, Flavor

Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

Powerful, Order, Water

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.67, Penguin

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

Art, People, Giving

Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

Motivational, Office, People

Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Motivational, Money, Work

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.9, Penguin

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Motivational, Leadership, Initiative

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.86, Penguin

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

Opportunity, Generosity, Different

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

Stories, Databases, Facts

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

Country, Book, Writing

By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.

Too Late, Study, Case Studies

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

World, Might

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

Art, Creating, Interesting

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

Would Be, Lists, Remarkable

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