Seth Godin Quotes

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

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• You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

  

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  • Media
  • Social
  • Stranger

• If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

  

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  • Reality
  • Perfect
  • Reason

• Think big. Start small.

  

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  • Think
  • Small
  • Start

• Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

  

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  • People
  • Mood
  • Emotion

• Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  

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  • Soul
  • Artist
  • Wall

• There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

  

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  • Ideas
  • Missing
  • Execute

• If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

  

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  • Ready
  • Late

• Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.

  

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  • Facts
  • Consumer

• Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.

  

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  • Easier
  • Arguing
  • Focusing

• If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

  

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  • Success
  • Failure
  • Option

• Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Action
  • Mean
  • Uncomfortable

• Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Innovation

• Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

  

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  • Failure
  • Successful

• Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

  

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  • Internet
  • Computer
  • Laptop

• Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.

  

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  • Determine
  • Circles
  • Outcomes

• Playing safe is very risky.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Playing
  • Risky

• Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

  

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  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

  

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  • May
  • Media
  • Social

• Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Learning
  • Teach
  • Generations

• If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

  

  Seth Godin
  • Work
  • Important
  • Value

• Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Hope
  • Tomorrow
  • Optimism

• We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Risk
  • Values
  • Celebrate

• Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

  

  Seth Godin
  • Looks
  • Shortcuts
  • Detours

• The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Failing
  • Starting