“Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.”
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Famous Seth Godin Quotes
“The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing”
“A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.”
Source: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
“Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.”
“I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.”
“Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.”
“It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.”
“Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.”
“There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.”
“The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Criticism comes to those who stand out.”
Source: Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
“The opposite of coherent is interesting.”
Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
“Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.”
“Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.”
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
“The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.”
“Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.”
Source: Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow
“The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.”