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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 34

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If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty

If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.

Motivational, Writing, Player

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

Organization, Ideas, People

Seth Godin (2004). “Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow”, p.52, Penguin

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

Business, Moving, Choices

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.18, Penguin

More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.

Jobs, Stupid, People

As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.

Inspirational, Mean, Sacrifice

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Failure, Stuff, Firsts

It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

Hands, Giving, Safe

The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.

Opportunity, People, Goal

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

Way, Worst, Willing

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

Book, Thinking, Design

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

Innovation, Age, Culture

The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.

People, Misunderstood, Way

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

Jobs, Clever, Brave

If you measure it, it will improve.

Ifs

Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.61, Penguin

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

Art, Design, Effort

Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.92, Penguin

The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

Dark, Night, Impact

FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Dec 10, 2013

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

Tension, Guts

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.68, Penguin

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

Guts, Contributing

A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible, Practice

Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

Stupid, Thinking, Balloons

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.91, Penguin

Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.

Pressure, Blowing It, Loses

You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.

Voice, Attention, Today

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

Jobs, New Job, Needs

Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.56, Penguin

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

Phones, Down And, Tweet

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

Ideas, Lasts, Great Idea

Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.101, Penguin

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