
Top 44 Best Seth Godin Quotes
#1. It's okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.
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#2. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
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#3. The best way to be missed when you're gone,
Is to stand for something when you're here
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#4. In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.
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#5. This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that?
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#6. Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.
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#7. The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented ... They come from inventing new questions!
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#8. And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world.
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#9. The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
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#10. If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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#11. Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.
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#12. Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.
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#13. Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
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#14. So now, having learned from machines, organizations are applying the same logic to people. Letting people in the organization use their best judgment turns out to be faster and cheaper - but only if you hire the right people and reward them for having the right attitude.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn't particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
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#17. You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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#18. Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.
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#19. We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.
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#20. Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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#21. When you are leading a tribe, a tribe that you belong to, the benefits increase, the work gets easier, and the results are more obvious. That's the best reason to overcome the fear.
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#22. Real gifts don't demand reciprocation (at least not direct reciprocation), and the best kinds of gifts are gifts of art.
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#23. Treating people with respect is the best way to earn their attention. - SETH GODIN
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#24. The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
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#25. It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.
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#26. The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
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#27. Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
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#28. My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
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#29. Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.
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#30. School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only
dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish
them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because
they worked hard enough to reach them.
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#31. If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.
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#32. I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
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#33. Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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#34. Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.
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#35. The best way to overcome your fear of creativity, brainstorming, intelligent risk-taking, or navigating a tricky situation might be to sprint.
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#36. When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.
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#37. Reality is the best reassurance of all.
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#38. Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
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#39. What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
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#40. Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
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#41. The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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#42. When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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#43. The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
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#44. Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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