Seth Godin Quotes

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

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• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Strategy

• Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Will
  • Results
  • Uncertainty

• I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Generation
  • Strategy

• Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Results

• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Good
  • Results
  • Got

• The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Said
  • Strategy
  • Islam

• That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Strategy
  • Racing

• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Results
  • Corruption

• I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Focus
  • Coach
  • Much

• My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Management

• We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Change
  • Rules
  • Results

• My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Think
  • Career
  • Hate

• We felt like we kind of backed up there. We were fortunate to get out of some things with some rolls and stuff, ... It was just an evaluation thing. We like Andy, we just felt like we need to make a move for the team.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Game
  • Team

• I should have said, 'Hey, we've got several things we're going to turn in and want to look at with them,' ... 'We see it one way, and we'll see how they see it.' That should have been my comments, but I went specifically . . . I went over some things there that you can't.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Way
  • Strategy

• Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • High
  • Exercise
  • Results

• If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.

  

  James Fallows
  • World
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

  

  George Clooney
  • Life
  • Process
  • Results

• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Person
  • Results
  • Activates

• The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Company
  • Strategy
  • Experiments

• Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

  

  Esaias Tegner
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Eternal

• Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Born
  • Teeth

• Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Serious
  • Virtue

• 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
  • Results
  • Strategy
  • Standing