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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 8

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The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.

Inspirational, Real, Media

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

Success, Waiting, Marketing

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Dead Ends, Ends, Situation

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

Thinking, Answers, Fine

The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

Real, Marketing, Mind

I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

Jobs, Believe, Thinking

Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.

Path, Use, Environment

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

Creativity, Artist, Might

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

Mean, Anxiety, Imaginary

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future”, p.114, Hachette UK

Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

Attitude, Inspirational Life, Artist

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

Catchy, Aim, Bother

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

Motivational, Christian, Mean

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Giving, Leader, Looks

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

Character, Squares, Mind

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

Leadership, Business, Winning

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Teacher, Art, Book

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.198, Penguin

Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.

Hands, Insightful, Intuition

If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.

Eight, States, Position

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

People, Marketing, Blogging

Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

Funny, Thoughtful, Worry

Good marketers measure.

Business, Marketing, Marketers

Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.203, Penguin

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

Wrecks, Persons

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Jobs, Doors, Needs

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.74, Penguin

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Humility, Average, Great Work

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

Thinking, Average, Organization

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