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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 35

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No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

Thinking, People, Watches

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

Art, Numbers, Maps

"Seth Godin on What it Takes to be a Linchpin". Interview with Steve Cunningham, mashable.com. February 14, 2014.

No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.

Motivational, Choices, Effort

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

Design, Lasts, Advantage

The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.

Motivational, Video, Makers

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

Writing, Boys, Novelists

"The Importance of Going First". Persobal blog, sethgodin.typepad.com. July 19, 2012.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

Profit, Instigators, Kickstarter

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

Art, Willing

The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.

Media, Organization, Events

Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

People, Empowering, Leader

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.23, Penguin

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

Life, Work, Opportunity

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

Jobs, Littles, Faster

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

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Motivational, Sports, Smart

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.

People, Matter

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Successful, Able, Succeed

The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.

Goal, Succeed

If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

Opportunity, Differences, Making A Difference

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.47, Penguin

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

Important, World, Information

"Seth Godin: Mark Cuban Is Completely Wrong About Aggregators" by Steve Rosenbaum, www.businessinsider.com. February 10, 2010.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

Running, Business, Successful

Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

Zero, Marketing, Followers

Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.

Marketing, Way, Commodity

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

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

Design, Marketing, Driven

It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.

Business, Book, Next

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Entrepreneur, Purpose, Mediocre

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

Business, Book, Hands

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