Seth Godin Quotes - Page 21

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• 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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• Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

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  Ideas, Littles, Factories

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• The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

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  Life, Motivational, Work

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• Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.

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  Choices, Given, Picks

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• If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?

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  Marketing, Ifs, Millions

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• Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

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  Obscurity, Problem, Piracy

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• The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

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  Art, Passion, Combination

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.82, Penguin

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• Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

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  Average, Firsts, Revolution

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• To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

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  Ideas, Hot Sauce, Want

  "How to get your ideas to spread". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2003.

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• The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

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  Responsibility, Unhappy, Fiduciary

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• It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

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  Motivational, Jobs, Work

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.11, Penguin

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• Everyone is not your customer.

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  Business, Customers

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• Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

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  Marketing, Management

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• We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

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  Needs, Students, Embrace

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• If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

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  Generosity, Choices, Emergencies

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• It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

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  Moments, Remarkable, Leap

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• The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.

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  Educational, Feelings, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Oct 25, 2012

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• But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

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  Mean, Thinking, Essence

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.

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  Running, Media, Games

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• You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

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  Mean, Want, Hard

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• What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

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  Art, Mean, Art Is

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

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  Real, Goal, Problem

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• Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

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  Book, Writing, Inspire

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• Great work is always shunned at first.

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  Firsts, Great Work

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• You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

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  Desire, Trying, Care

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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