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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