Quotes By Seth Godin BACK
- Instead of wondering when your
- The best way to be
- Today not starting is far
- Change is not a threat
- Connect create meaning make a
- Dont be different just to
- You can listen to what
- A big part of doing
- In the long run doing
- Somewhere in the world someone
- The question is not Will
- If we can fall in
- Your generosity is more important
- Its never too late to
- Be bold make mistakes learn
- Were all born creative it
- If you wait until you
- A tribe is a group
- People who make a difference
- In a crowded marketplace fitting
- Forgive yourself for not being
- Ideas in secret die They
- One key to moving forward
- Fitting in is a short
- Leadership is the art of
- Successful people are successful for
- Theres nothing wrong with having
- Keep starting until you finish
- You win by trying And
- Part of leadership a big
- What are you working on
- Good marketers tell a story
- You cant have good ideas
- Leadership is scarce because few
- Making promises and keeping them
- Most people are searching for
- Transferring your passion to your
- Go ahead and act as
- How dare you settle for
- The job isnt to catch
- Theres a big difference between
- Own your dreams There is
- The only thing worse than
- People are buying only one
- Choices lead to habits Habits
- Please stop waiting for a
- The first step toward becoming
- You can raise the bar
- Life is like skiing Just
- Just about every great brave
- Make something happen today before
- Just because the tide is
- People dont believe what you
- You have everything you need
- Theres a huge difference between
- You have brilliance in you
- If not enough people doubt
- Before you tell yourself you
- If it scares you it
- Most people with a big
- If you take action you
- When we intentionally seek out
- Make a decision It doesnt
- The best time to start
- Loving what you do is
- Theres no shortage of remarkable
- If you dont require the
- Either you defend the status
- The people who are good
- Its not an accident that
- Dont find customers for your
- The problem with competition is
- We are leaving the industrial
- If its worth listening to
- The brand of the futureis
- Quit or be exceptional Average
- As youve probably discovered great
- The problem with taking offense
- Your audacious life goals are
- One theory says that if
- The instinct to produce great
- All motivation is self motivation
- Organizations that destroy the status
- Set up a life you
- Optimism is the most important
- Earn trust earn trust earn
- Art isnt only a painting
- Figure out the people part
- Set a goal and in
- Positive thinking is hard Worth
- The secret of leadership is
- A brand is the set
- A brand that stands for
- I see things differently when
- The world is begging for
- More than anything else I
- Change isnt made by asking
- Who you hang out with
- Remarkable visions and genuine insights
- Art isnt only a painting
- Measurement is fabulous Unless youre
- The librarian isnt a clerk
- If you love writing or
- The edge is a great
- Increasingly there are only two
- Finding new ways more clever
- I dont think we have
- People are not afraid of
- One bad review doesnt ruin
- The first thing you do
- How was your day If
- If you want to be
- The less people know the
- Art is a personal act
- The Cul de Sac French
- As our society gets more
- Strategic quitting is the secret
- If you need to conceal
- You cannot create a piece
- Our job is obvious we
- Once you free yourself from
- The fatigue was there but
- Fire the committee No great
- Do your art But dont
- You dont launch a popular
- As soon as we associate
- Permission marketing is marketing without
- Anxiety is practising failure in
- Art is a personal act
- Being an artist isnt a
- The status quo is persistent
- You cant win by being
- Rehearsing failure is simply a
- In a long distance race
- If you hear my idea
- A customer is never out
- If you are wiling to
- If you cant state your
- Facts are irrelevant What matters
- Nine years of experience is
- If youre going to buy
- Defending mediocrity is exhausting
- The art the new the
- Too often the person who
- Busy does not equal important
- The problem with working with
- A book is a souvenir
- Those that spend the most
- An artist is someone who
- The public square is more
- Letting your customers set your
- Being a leader gives you
- Believe in what you do
- The only reason to build
- I dont think the shortage
- For most modern marketers quantity
- Art isnt only a painting
- Go ahead do something impossible
- Good marketers measure
- Kings fear change Leaders crave
- If you think your organization
- Youre competing against people in
- Marketing is a contest for
- So sure start with a
- Good ideas come from bad
- Just because something is easy
- Good enough stopped being good
- I learned that a long
- You dont make art after
- Art is not in the
- Even good excuses really good
- People get good gigs because
- Not only are bloggers suckers
- Our best work cant possibly
- Just as we dont spend
- If you wait until there
- You dont have to settle
- Your art is the act
- The media wants overnight successes
- Most of your competition spend
- Art is what we callthe
- The weird set an example
- Excellence isnt about meeting the
- Its clearly more fun to
- Pain s the truth of
- Most people have been brainwashed
- Dont create for the masses
- The opportunity of a lifetime
- Human nature is to need
- Positive thinking doesnt guarantee results
- Persistence isnt using the same
- The cost of being wrong
- Anyone who says failure is
- Ideas that spread win
- If failure is not an
- Are you doing work worth
- Criticism comes to those who
- The challenge is simple Quitting
- The problem with putting it
- I define anxiety as experiencing
- If you try to delight
- The problem with requiring people
- Go ahead and make something
- The universal truth is beyond
- In a battle between two
- The habit of doing more
- Anxiety is experiencing failure in
- Do you believe in what
- Every great company brand career
- The problem with the race
- The purpose of an elevator
- I find that its almost
- The job is not your
- Every voice doesnt matter only
- Art is the act of
- Plans are great but missions
- Instead of working so hard
- Theres no shortage of great
- The goal of a marketing
- Art is what we do
- You can risk being wrong
- The tiny cost of failureis
- By definition remarkable things get
- The only way to get
- The challenge with being an
- Leadership is scarce because few
- Soon is not as good
- Gratitude and opportunity create more
- Not adding value is the
- But what if I fail
- Being charismatic doesnt make you
- No one has ever built
- Make enough mole hills and
- Being aware of your fear
- Denigrating art you dont understand
- Leaders have followers managers have
- The only way to consistently
- If you treat your employees
- The only thing all successful
- Waiting for perfect is never
- I think the most productive
- Excellence isnt about working extra
- So much easier to aim
- Communication is the transfer of
- Where do you put the
- Perfect cant possibly be the
- I do not think you
- The only path to amazing
- Make more decisions Thats the
- You are not your resume
- Take the long way Do
- Successful people are the ones
- People rarely buy what they
- Leadership on the other hand
- If it were any other
- Big ideas are little ideas
- You dont need more time
- Marketing is no longer about
- Remarkable work often comes from
- Why waste a sentence saying
- Remember the Bob Dylan rule
- If you are deliberately trying
- Writing a book is a
- Social Networking that matters is
- Everyone has failed everyone has
- You cant lose Go go
- You can be right or
- People watch what you do
- When you put your ideas
- Successful people fail often and
- We notice what we choose
- Build it and they will
- We know what you want
- No one knows more about
- If failure is not an
- If you hesitate to map
- Dont waste time looking for
- The enemy of fear is
- The one path that never
- Perhaps your challenge isnt finding
- The best favors are worth
- At the heart of art
- Most people have bosses who
- Effort is its own reward
- If I fail more than
- Everyone has a comfort zone
- Your history of work is
- As creators our pursuit of
- The key to success is
- Which are youcompeten t inspiring
- Becoming a superstar takes about 10000
- By being remarkable being genuine
- You are far more likely
- If youre not the best
- You market when you hire
- As long as you want
- Its almost impossible to have
- Basically you create your experience
- When you set down the
- The most successful givers arent
- I dont think theres a
- No more than six words
- If you cant make money
- Say what you believe and
- I dont like offending people
- Seek out habits that help
- All good ideas are terrible
- The goal in blogging business
- Fans true fans are hard
- What I learned Shun nonbelievers
- Things that look like shortcuts
- Art is frightening Art isnt
- The first rule of doing
- Selling to people who actually
- People talking about you is
- A bully is playing a
- One reason people who spend
- Be genuine Be remarkable Be
- Taking delight in the journey
- Two different things A crowd
- Its uncomfortable to challenge the
- Human beings thanks to culture
- The value we create is
- The enemy of creativity is
- Playing safe is very risky
- One option is to struggle
- Two elements of successful leadership
- If youre not upsetting anyone
- Weve greatly exaggerated the risk
- The real power of tribes
- Dig your well before youre
- The goal is to be
- Teaching young people to sell
- Who gets to decide what
- Data is not useful until
- Surprise and delight and connection
- If you speak up online
- What evidence would you need
- Art is when we do
- The secret to being wrong
- Your drudgery is another persons
- Developing expertise or assets that
- Our job is to make
- Stop trying to find the
- The definition of a revolution
- If you can raise money
- In fact most of the
- Be personal Be relevant Be
- Just imagine how much youd
- Fear for a linchpin is
- The key to getting a
- Learning is not watching a
- Dont measure anything unless the
- The only long term motivation
- Persistent people are able to
- Art is what were doing
- Gifts are not favors If
- People that take responsibility are
- Great innovations powerful interactions and
- The challenge of our time
- Getting picked is fine if
- Transformation al leaders dont start
- What tribes are is a
- Art is the work of
- Ideas arent a sideshow that
- We fail when we give
- The big win is when
- Dont do it because its
- In a digital world the
- Shame must be accepted to
- The people who are the
- Competence is no longer a
- Change almost never fails because
- If youre remarkable its likely
- Art is a personal gift
- Authenticy in marketing is telling
- Popular is not the same
- You dont need to convince
- Choose your customers choose your
- Remarkable visions and genuine insight
- We need students who can
- Everyone picks the best one
- The rest of the world
- Leaders lead when they take
- The unhappy theory of business
- People who can spread ideas
- The desire that we have
- Piracy is not the problem
- One reason I encourage people
- The art of good decision
- Play a new game not
- Are you copying others People
- Discomfort brings engagement and change
- Every revolution destroys the average
- Just about anything worth doing
- Why do we value leadership
- We do not need to
- If theres time for an
- Everyone is not your customer
- It always feels too soon
- The only purpose of customer
- Marketing management is now tribal
- If you cant sell to 1
- You can game the social
- You want it to be
- It turns out that the
- The combination of passion and
- When kids grow up wanting
- My problem with the search
- What I mean by art
- Im not a psychopath Im
- Genius is the act of
- The thing about goals is
- Heres the thing The book
- Great work is always shunned
- Saying no or even stop
- If its worth doing its
- Thats why theres lots and
- And in a world where
- Dont try to be the
- I look at Starbucks Howard
- Marketing begins before the product
- Will you succeed because you
- Habits are where our lives
- If youre passionate be passionate
- When you are trusted because
- The way you make something
- Thats your opportunity to approach
- And it turns out that
- Theres no life work balance
- Reject the tyranny of picked
- It will take you less
- If you want customers to
- Great marketers dont make stuff
- You have to find a
- I was amplifying the negative
- Leading is a skill not
- The biggest takeaway for anyone
- Heres conventional wisdom Success makes
- Courage doesnt always involve physical
- Making an average pitch to
- Were going to spend our
- Marketing isnt done by computers
- Repeating easy tasks again and
- Do the emotional labor of
- All artists are entrepreneurs All
- The internet has opened the
- Its pretty easy to decide
- Dont save the canary Fix
- The reason business writing is
- More process less innovation More
- Success brings with it the
- Too often we dont give
- Mass marketing means appealing to
- Its easy to be afraid
- Marketing yourself to a new
- Great projects like great careers
- Mostly the best way to
- Cheap is the last refuge
- Practice works because practice gives
- Is it worth getting one
- More and more people now
- In contemporary art or movies
- No the only way to
- No one can force you
- Heres the fascinating part call
- You cannot buy your way
- Ill confess that I dont
- If its work we try
- Entertainment has seduced us into
- Laptop computers dramatically increased the
- Great leaders create movements by
- How was your day is
- Viewing the web as a
- If you think cat food
- Great leaders dont try to
- If your project or organization
- I think creativity is better
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- Marketing tells a story that
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- Faced with the opportunity to
- Your peer group are people
- The only people who get
- You dont become indispensable merely
- If you dont know how
- How often do our heroes
- Turn strangers into friends Turn
- Success comes from doing the
- Black Friday is a media
- I think if your goal
- The digital asset that matters
- Our job as marketers and
- Isnt the drawing board the
- Its much easier to spend
- Quality is not an absolute
- If youre going to invest
- Its not about you its
- The devil doesnt need an
- If failure isnt an option
- The easiest way to thrive
- Sooner or later the ones
- We are too focused on
- My best advice win little
- Anything worth achieving in life
- The answer to the question
- If you dont like your
- What we most need in
- Decide before you start that
- Many people are starting to
- The ONLY thing leaders have
- When we think about what
- In nearly every case trying
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- Art is a human act
- New fashions of all sorts
- Design is the last great
- outsiders are way more likely
- The problem with holding a
- The mirror we hold up
- I think that any time
- Kickstarter isnt a profit center
- Competence is no longer scarce
- What people are afraid of
- Living and breathing an authentic
- Emotions are far more contagious
- You dont win an Olympic
- Your success is no longer
- The notion that I do
- The YouTube video maker gets
- Evolution is the most popular
- I made a decision to
- Theres no map for being
- Debt creates stress stress creates
- You dont win an Olympic
- Content Marketing is all the
- If youre working with a
- Trust is precious and easily
- If the game is designed
- The job is not the
- After you produce you can
- Sometimes were so focused on
- All Marketers are liars tell
- Creating art is a habit
- Leaders who set out to
- The ladder of success isnt
- The people that are doing
- It takes three years to
- Habits are more powerful than
- Giving people what they want
- Competent people are the most
- Marketers want to get their
- The secret of getting on
- Instead of focusing on arguing
- If you believe that a
- Before you promise to change
- Think big Start small
- Its time to stop complying
- Someone can always do your
- Great work is the result
- One key to learning and
- Everyone we interact with is
- Any customer that walks away
- In general organizations are afraid
- The second person to write
- Winners quit all the time
- Your positions on EVERYTHING are
- If you dont get it
- Mass attention is almost unattainable
- We need to care enough
- Im not proposing that you
- Content marketing is the only
- The next thing you do
- There are always limits and
- You dont have enough time
- I think its fascinating to
- Its far easier to put
- Sooner or later many idealists
- Flexible in the face of
- If youve got the platform
- Art is the work of
- When exactly were we brainwashed
- I wonder if real art
- Fear is the workout we
- If there isnt a good
- You succeed because youve chosen
- School is at its best
- Competition validates you It creates
- Some people read business books
- Books work as an art
- No one is as smart
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- What if getting bigger isnt
- If you measure it it
- Art changes posture and posture
- The reason you might choose
- You gain converts by winning
- Dont fix me Love me
- Real change comes from finding
- The danger of the Web
- Catering to the passionate is
- Instead of working hard to
- Its entirely possible that there
- Marketing is the act of
- The goal has never been
- Do you know what people
- The myth that the CEO
- If we live in a
- All the creativity books in
- The joy of art is
- I have something to say
- The opportunity is not in
- Organizations grow when they persuade
- You can win with consistent
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- I believe that uncertainty is
- A product for everyone rarely
- Faith in yourself in your
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- Traditional corporations particularly large scale
- The only purpose of starting
- You dont need a new
- Put aside your need for
- Be with the ones you
- If you have no wish
- The reason it seems that
- Low price is a great
- Its uncomfortable to resist the
- In our desire to please
- If youre a marketer who
- The reason they want you
- But this is a remarkable
- The status quo is leaving
- Attention is a bit like
- Its impossible to have a
- Surprise and differentiation have far
- Remarkable work is always not
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- If you have a book
- Many Things That Are True
- Give up control and give
- Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing
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- Skepticism doesnt help you hear
- The market and the consumer
- Your best customers are worth
- By the time there is
- Doing justice to the work
- Ideas dont get smaller when
- A one hit wonder is
- Ive never once met a
- Little changes cost you Big
- If you want to dig
- The nature of revolutions is
- Dreams are difficult to build
- You dont have to settle
- The way to work with
- The future of publishing is
- Go for the edges Challenge
- Its human nature to quit
- When you walk around braced
- I find that I have
- A business owner is the
- Great stories agree with our
- The market demands a signal
- Learning is not done to
- Treat different people differently Anything
- The opposite of coherent is
- Its more important that you
- Life is not about gutting
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- The question isnt whether or
- The reason social media is
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- Many people believe that great
- The conversation is happening about
- Listen to your fear but
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- The best experiences and the
- Artists are people with a
- The resistance is the voice
- If you can influence the
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- I think that the economics
- If you cant be remarkable
- The time to look for
- The essence of marketing today
- Artis the intentional act of
- Theres no correlation between how
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- This notion that it is
- No organization ever created an
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- As the amount of inputs
- Dont have any meetings about
- A symptom of the revolution
- Action or inaction are both
- Living with doubt is almost
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- Marketing used to be what
- Playing the game is a
- I think if youre remarkable
- Competence is the enemy of
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- If you could do tomorrow
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- You can define advertising as
- If you work in an
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- No everything is not going
- If youre not proud of
- When you can swim who
- The internet was supposed to
- I intentionally abandoned the hard
- Dont scale because you think
- Bullhorns are overrated having ten
- Canoeing was hard and scary
- Acknowledge to yourself that the
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- The problem with words is
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- The object isnt to be
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- Permission marketing turns strangers into
- The sooner we realize that
- Its okay Let your ego
- All great programmers learn the
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- You cant fool all the
- There are lots of good
- Art is never defect free
- Desire cant be sated because
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- The tragedy is that society
- I think art is the
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- The application process changes the
- The competitive advantages the marketplace
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- If your organization requires success
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- When in doubt tell yourself
- Dreamers dont have special genes
- The easier it is to
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- Surprise comes from defying expectations
- Leadership is a choice Its
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- Its not reckless because when
- When your art fails make
- A dialogue leads to connection
- The future of marketing is
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- If you use your money
- We dont become mediocre all
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- Dont wait to be picked
- Every single important thing we
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- Not changing your strategy merely
- By my definition most art
- Networking that matters is helping
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- My blogging life is basically
- The innovator creates a business
- We dont need to be
- Blaming the system is soothing
- Marketers have to move upstream
- No one can be responsible
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- No niche is too small
- The enemy of creativity is
- If you hear my idea
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- Initiating is really and truly
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- My new favorite word is
- Initiative is the privilege of
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- Excellence isnt about meeting the
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- The only path to amazing
- Good advice is priceless Not
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- The largest enemy of change
- Marketing is the art of
- The way you feel about
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- Most people dont see that
- The world doesnt owe you
- You cant control other people
- Self sufficiency appears to be
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- Teamwork is the word that
- The best marketing strategy is
- Competition and the market are
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- Marketing is the way your
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- An organization filled with honest
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- Art is the act of
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- The resistance is not something
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