Seth Godin Quotes

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Seth Godin

Profession : Writer

Birth : July 10, 1960

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.

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In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

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Dig your well before you're thirsty.

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Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

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When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

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Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

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Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

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I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

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I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

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This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

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What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

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The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before.

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The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

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Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

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If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

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