Seth Godin Quotes

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

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• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Long
  • Today
  • Energy

• 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

• 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

• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Now
  • Disney

• For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Important
  • Deep
  • Boxing

• 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

• The electoral strategy for 2016 was, 'Vote for me; I'm not Trump,' and, 'Trump is dangerous, so get out and vote.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Me
  • Trump
  • Vote

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

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Strategy
  • Racing

• 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

• The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Mistake
  • Same

• 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 are on a crazy strategy with our central bank. It's good to have alternative ecosystems. It's not that the dollar will go away, but we need other options if it crashes or wildly inflates.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Good
  • Crazy
  • Strategy

• I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• 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

• Blending kids, ex-spouses, money and investment styles -- each one of them requires its own strategy.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Strategy

• Greg is a seasoned veteran with leadership experience in operations and finance, ... His broad, balanced understanding of the enterprise gives him the insights needed to direct our corporate staffs, guide our corporate strategy and offer good counsel at the highest levels of the Company.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Understanding

• This agreement should be a wake-up call to all those in the entertainment industry who think outrageousness is a clever marketing strategy.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Up
  • Marketing
  • Industry

• Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Fool
  • Economic
  • Strategy

• 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
  • Strategy

• The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

  

  Brother Ali
  • Music
  • Art
  • Strategy

• Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Spiritual

• Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

  

  William Penn
  • Mind
  • Passion
  • Found

• Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Strategy
  • Fitting