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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 6

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The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

Notebook, Fancy, Instinct

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

Dark, Mushrooms, Return

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

Effort, Trying, Way

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

Positive, Attitude, Greatness

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Great Work, Uncomfortable

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Art, Writing, Blogging

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Change, Asking Permission, Asking For Forgiveness

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.70, Penguin

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

Art, Unique, Impact

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.

Waiting, Fine, Plans

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

Important, Fabulous, Measurement

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

Genius, Way, Problem

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

Trying, Delight, Miserable

Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.

Jobs, Promise, Delight

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

Writing, Waste, Wasting Time

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

People, Brave, Needs

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.11, Penguin

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Thought Provoking, Innovation, Failure Is Not An Option

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Motivation, Self, Long

"Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Information Solutions Interview, www.experian.com.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Inspirational, Fear, Smart

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Dream, Long, Sticks

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.132, Penguin

So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

Long, Tests, Matter

We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

Creative, Littles, Born

The world is begging for you to lead.

World, Begging

I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

Doors, People, Wells

"Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Information Solutions Interview, www.experian.com.

More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

Thinking, Watches, Citizens

The enemy of fear is creativity.

Creativity, Enemy

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