Seth Godin Quotes

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

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• I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Hair
  • Need
  • Products

• Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Products
  • Access

• The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Feel
  • Comfortable
  • Customers

• The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • You
  • Products
  • E-mail

• That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • May
  • Wealth
  • Products

• Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Environment

• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Behavior
  • Customers

• To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Customers
  • Where
  • Matters

• EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • Company

• My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Inspiration

• ...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Quality

• Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Customers
  • Depends

• Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Differences
  • Pay
  • Cost

• The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Time
  • Real
  • Future

• I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • World
  • Business
  • Game

• I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It's crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• H&R Block is a company that has been advertising itself quite consistently as being in your corner. I think it is fair to say that they have not been in your corner but have been putting customers in the corner instead.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Advertising
  • Customers
  • H&R

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• I've figured out the secret. Your mind is your power; you have to work with your mind and work with your own thoughts about your own life. If you spend so much time thinking, "This industry is male-dominated. It's sexist. It's this. It's that," then that's what the picture will always be. I remember when I was coming up, I didn't have those thoughts. My mom told me I could be whatever I wanted to be and I could be as bright of a star as I was meant to be. So, that's where I put all of my focus and my thought...into what I could do. And I carry that with me now.

  

  Brandy
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Thoughts

• My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Job
  • Team
  • Football

• I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.

  

  Murray Head
  • Like
  • Start
  • Form

• In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Belief
  • Investigation
  • Credibility

• Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Customers
  • Products