Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

Seth Godin (b.1960) is an American entrepreneur and management consultant. He is a popular author and public speaker on branding and the psychology of marketing.

Godin is famous for his storytelling and his brilliant sound bites in his numerous books, articles, and speeches. His bestsellers include Purple Cow (2003,) Free Prize Inside (2004,) The Dip (2007,) Tribes (2008,) and Linchpin (2010.) Purple Cow specified how brands and individuals could make their stories seem noteworthy.

Tribes argued that one could create social change if one could find one’s “tribe” (those with whom we share our ideals.) Linchpin urged readers to apply “emotional labor” for others, to “give gifts” of time and energy to facilitate becoming the indispensable employee no organization would ever consider firing.

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Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
Seth Godin
Topics: Change

Scarcity creates value.
Seth Godin
Topics: Appreciation, Economics, Gratitude

If you’re not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
Seth Godin
Topics: Choice

99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity isn’t coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The hard part is actually executing the thing you’ve thought of.
Seth Godin

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
Seth Godin
Topics: Greatness

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
Seth Godin
Topics: Mediocrity

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
Seth Godin
Topics: Greatness

If you want to become the kind of person that any company would kill to have as an employee, you need to be the kind of employee that’s really picky about who you align with.
Seth Godin

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.
Seth Godin
Topics: Relationships

It’s comforting to use someone else’s priorities to guide our work. It lets us off the hook. But the only way to do our best work is to realize that part of what it means to do our work is to own the priorities as well. Your boat, your compass.
Seth Godin

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
Seth Godin

If you can’t sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
Seth Godin

Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
Seth Godin
Topics: Ideas

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
Topics: Change

The reason they want you to fit in… is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
Seth Godin
Topics: Mediocrity

In our desire to please everyone, it’s very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Seth Godin
Topics: Mediocrity

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.
Seth Godin
Topics: Change

Choose your customers, choose your future.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.
Seth Godin
Topics: Passion

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
Seth Godin
Topics: Greatness

You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
Seth Godin
Topics: Relationships

But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
Seth Godin

You are not your resume, you are your work.
Seth Godin
Topics: Greatness

If you can’t make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.
Seth Godin

The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about.
Seth Godin

Bad behavior and irrational decisions are almost always caused by fear. If you want to change the behavior, address the fear.
Seth Godin
Topics: Fear

Leadership on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
Seth Godin
Topics: Management, Leadership

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