“The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.”
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Famous Seth Godin Quotes
“Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.”
“Art is the act of navigating without a map.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.”
“I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.”
“Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.”
Source: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
“The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.”
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
“Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.”
“By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.”
“Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.”
“Art is what we do when we're truly alive.”
Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
“The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.”
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
“A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.”
“As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.”
“Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.”
“Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.”
“It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.”
“Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.”
Source: All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
“There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.”
“The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.”
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
“No niche is too small if it's yours.”
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?