Seth Godin Quotes

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
SETH GODIN

Inspire Marketing Successful
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
SETH GODIN

Inspirational Needs Work
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.
SETH GODIN

Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
SETH GODIN

Life Lunch Work
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
SETH GODIN

Answers Creative Findings
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.
SETH GODIN

Bird Hands People
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
SETH GODIN

Failure Option Success
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
SETH GODIN

Essence Marketing People
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
SETH GODIN

Business Gigs Mind Own People
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
SETH GODIN

Book Ideas
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.
SETH GODIN

Distance Running Tired
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
SETH GODIN

Hills Moles Mountain
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
SETH GODIN

Changing Differences Life Matters
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
SETH GODIN

Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
SETH GODIN

Emotional Organization People
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
SETH GODIN

Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
If I fail more than you do, I win.
SETH GODIN

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

Citizens Thinking Watches
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
SETH GODIN

Jobs Passion Peace
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
SETH GODIN

Long Positivity Strategy
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
SETH GODIN

Better Doing Worth
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
SETH GODIN

Insightful Inspiring Marketing
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
SETH GODIN

Acceptance Business Perfect
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
SETH GODIN

Gratitude Opportunity

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