Seth Godin Quotes - Page 26

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• Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

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  Art, Hate, Writing

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.141, Penguin

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• The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

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  Passion, Confusion, Choices

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• At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

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  Artist, Age, Four

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.32, Penguin

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• Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

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  Art, Talking, Free Things

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

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  School, Asking, Wasting Time

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• Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

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  Competition, Permit, Categories

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• You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

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  Business, People, Marketing

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• By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

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  Mean, Fire, Marketing

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• The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

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  Mistake, Book, Marketing

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• I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

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  Book, Hard Work, Impact

  "Who's telling you the truth about your online personal marketing?". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 21, 2008.

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• Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

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  Leadership, Desire, Engagement

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• 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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  Giving Up, Business, Ideas

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• The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

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  Business, Lists, Process

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• The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

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  Business, Ideas, Trump

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• If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

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  Change, Needs, Want

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• Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

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  Change, Games, Cost

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• If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

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  Somewhere Else, Choices, Proud

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• Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

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  Greatness, Justice, Tasks

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• If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

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  Home, Memorable, Greatness

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• When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

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  Greatness, Legacy, Matter

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.79, Penguin

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• When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

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  Greatness, Matter, Rooms

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• If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

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  Leadership, Management, Reaching

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

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• 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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  Smart, Believe, People

  Seth Godin (2009). “All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All”, p.14, Penguin

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• Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

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  Art, Creating, Interesting

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• Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

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  Would Be, Lists, Remarkable

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