Seth Godin Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

• Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Goal, Proud

  "Crash diets and good habits". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 21, 2012.

• Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Running, Goal

• 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

  Moving, Opportunity, Goal

• Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

  Seth Godin

  Shoes, Different Experiences, Goal

• Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Goal, Support

• The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

  Seth Godin

  Artist, Accomplish Your Goals, Differences

• Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

  Seth Godin

  Perfect, Goal, Important

• Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Reading, Goal

  "How to read a business book". sethgodin.typepad.com. May 21, 2008.

• I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

  Seth Godin

  Humility, Offending, People

• Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

  Seth Godin

  People, Goal, Archives

• The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Opposites, Perfect

• The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Scary, Hook

• If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

  Seth Godin

  Perfect, Goal, Definitions

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.195, Penguin

• The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, People, Goal

• Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

  Seth Godin

  Stars, Book, Perfect

• Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Careers, Shoes

• The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Succeed

• Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

  Seth Godin

  Persistence, Goal, Tactics

• The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Three, Fiction

• If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Gone, Maps

• I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

  Seth Godin

  Mistake, Thinking, Goal

• Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Goal

• The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Fun, Impact

• My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

  Seth Godin

  Real, Goal, Problem

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