Seth Godin Quotes

What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.

Seth Godin

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• People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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  • Free
  • Respect

• I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

  

  Gary Frank
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• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
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• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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• I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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  • Reality
  • Fake

• Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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  • Life
  • Believe

• I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Time
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• People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.

  

  Hannah Simone
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  • Work
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• The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • People
  • Game
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• When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

  

  Carla Bley
  • People
  • Play
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• There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Great
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• To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

  

  Daley Thompson
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  • Doing
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• As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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• You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.

  

  Al Roker
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  • Food
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• We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.

  

  Don McLean
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  • Live

• I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
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  • Good

• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Black
  • Player
  • Win

• What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Marketing