black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
SETH GODIN

Marketing Motivation People
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
SETH GODIN

Elevator Purpose Solution Want
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
SETH GODIN

Entrepreneur Social Media World
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
SETH GODIN

Fine Plans Waiting
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
SETH GODIN

Copying Pay People
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

Failure Fear Perseverance
We fail when we give up too soon.
SETH GODIN

Failing Giving Giving Up
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
SETH GODIN

Decision Mistakes Sweat
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
SETH GODIN

Time Waste Writing
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
SETH GODIN

Cost Leadership Trying
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
SETH GODIN

Criticism Honor Ruins
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
SETH GODIN

Business One Perfect Wise
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
SETH GODIN

Inspire Marketing Successful
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
SETH GODIN

Different Experiences Goal Shoes
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
SETH GODIN

Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
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.
SETH GODIN

Aim Bother Catchy

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Seth Godin Quotes