Seth Godin Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.

  Seth Godin

  Effort, Rewards, Ifs

• One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can.
  
  Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

• Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Effort, Shortcuts

• Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, Business, Winning

• It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

  Seth Godin

  Effort, Trying, Way

• No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.

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  Motivational, Choices, Effort

• When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.

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  Dream, Art, Mean

• Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

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  Caring, Effort, Advantage

• If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

  Seth Godin

  Best Effort, Worth Waiting For, Chinese Proverb

• My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

  Seth Godin

  Inspiration, Favorite Words, Effort

• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

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  Thinking, Self, Creating

• Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

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  Art, Design, Effort

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.92, Penguin

• Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.

  Seth Godin

  Workout, Giving, Work Out

• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

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  Careers, Errors, Effort

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.27, Penguin

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