Top 100 Godin Quotes
#1. It's becoming clear that people who reject the worst of the current system are actually more likely to succeed. -Seth Godin, Linchpin
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#2. It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them. ~ Seth Godin
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#3. Treating people with respect is the best way to earn their attention. - SETH GODIN
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#4. No one is as smart as all of us. -Seth Godin, author/entrepreneur
Jason Fried
#5. Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking.
It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day
to deliver your message with authority.
You should write one.
Seth Godin
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#6. Purple Cow (SETH GODIN) - Your Highlight on page 68 | location 1042-1042 | Added on Friday, 6 June 2014 10:00:32 Assume that what was remarkable last time won't be remarkable this time. ==========
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#7. Most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top.
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#8. Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.
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#9. 4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.
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#10. Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.
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#11. The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!
Seth Godin
#12. Sign your work ... If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
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#13. Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
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#14. All good ideas are terrible ...
Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
Seth Godin
#15. Your first mistake might be assuming that people are rational.
Your second mistake could be assuming that people are eager for change.
And the marketer's third mistake is assuming that once someone knows things the way you know them, they will choose what you chose.
Seth Godin
#16. Real content marketing isn't repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.
Seth Godin
#17. The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.
Seth Godin
#18. Where did your art go while you were tweeting?
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#19. Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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#20. Going out of your way to find uncomfortable situations isn't natural, but it's essential.
Seth Godin
#21. There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
Seth Godin
#22. We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
Seth Godin
#23. Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
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#24. Thomas Hawk is the most successful digital photographer in the world. He has taken tens of thousands of pictures, on his way to his goal of taking a million in his lifetime. The
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#25. Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.
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#26. Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?
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#27. Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again
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#28. Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
Seth Godin
#29. 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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#30. If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
Seth Godin
#31. The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
Seth Godin
#32. The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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#33. Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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#34. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
Seth Godin
#35. The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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#36. You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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#37. Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.
Seth Godin
#38. Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
#39. The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.
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#40. If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.
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#41. In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
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#42. I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
Seth Godin
#43. And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
Seth Godin
#44. Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.
Seth Godin
#45. It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
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#46. It's what we wrestle with every single day. The intersection of comfort, danger, and safety. The balancing act between vulnerability and shame. The opportunity (or the risk) to do art. The willingness to take responsibility for caring enough to make a difference and to have a point of view.
Seth Godin
#47. One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.
Seth Godin
#48. For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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#49. When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.
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#50. Quite or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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#51. No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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#52. At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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#53. Passion can overcome fear - the fear of losing, of failing, of being traditional.
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#54. When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.
Seth Godin
#55. Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
Seth Godin
#56. Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.
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#57. What happens when the world cares more about unique voices and remarkable insights than it does about cheap labor
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#58. In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.
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#59. When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.
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#60. Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.
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#61. If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?
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#62. I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.
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#63. Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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#64. A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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#65. Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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#66. Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
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#67. If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.
Seth Godin
#68. Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.
Seth Godin
#69. Criticism comes to those who stand out.
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#70. Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
Seth Godin
#71. I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
Seth Godin
#72. What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
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#73. If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.
Seth Godin
#74. 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.
Seth Godin
#75. the new form of marketing is leadership, and leadership is about building and connecting tribes of like-minded people.
Seth Godin
#76. Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).
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#77. Be remarkable Be generous Create art Make judgment calls Connect people and ideas . . . and we have no choice but to reward you.
Seth Godin
#78. If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
Seth Godin
#79. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.
Seth Godin
#80. It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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#81. By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late ...
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#82. Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
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#83. If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
Seth Godin
#84. It's all a risk. Always. That's not true, actually. The only exception: it's a certainty that there's risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That's because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.
Seth Godin
#85. In other words, they believe it's wiser to focus more on increasing sales to a smaller percentage of your existing customers than to find new ones.
Seth Godin
#86. Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
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#87. The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
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#88. If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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#89. Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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#90. How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.
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#91. The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.
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#92. Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.
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#93. Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.
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#94. Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.
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#95. Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
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#96. In your career, even more than for a brand, being safe is risky. The path to lifetime job security is to be remarkable.
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#98. The tiny cost of failure ... is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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#99. THE RIGHT INFORMATION BRINGS KNOWLEDGE. AND KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. SHARING IT IS EMPOWERMENT.
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#100. Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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