Seth Godin Quotes

The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

Seth Godin

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• Goal
• Curiosity
• Marketing

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• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Team

• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • You
  • Training
  • Negotiation

• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Writing
  • Color

• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Dog

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Better
  • Living
  • Town

• When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Why
  • Myself

• It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Cancer
  • Lucky

• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Voice
  • Lord
  • Theologian

• Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Blessed

• I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • World
  • Want
  • Problems

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Know
  • Lyrics
  • Opera

• Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Responsibility
  • Taken

• What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • May
  • Education
  • Curiosity

• When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • People
  • Famous

• Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Work
  • Live

• God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Good
  • God

• Auditions are an opportunity to play and go in there and bring the character to life. The writers have it stuck in their head and haven't seen it jump off the page.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Life
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• If you can't be present when the time comes, then you may miss the opportunity.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Time
  • May
  • Opportunity

• We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Real
  • Science
  • Curiosity

• I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Live

• Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

  

  John Thorn
  • Great
  • History
  • Game

• The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Attention
  • Goal