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

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
Seth Godin
Topics: Mediocrity

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.
Seth Godin
Topics: Choice

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

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

Everyone is not your customer.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

Art is what we’re doing when we do our best work.
Seth Godin
Topics: Greatness

Give up control and give it away … The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

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

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
Seth Godin

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
Seth Godin

If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
Seth Godin
Topics: Change

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.
Seth Godin
Topics: Choice

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

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

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
Seth Godin
Topics: Choice

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

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.
Seth Godin
Topics: Ideas

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

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

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
Seth Godin

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.
Seth Godin
Topics: Ideas

Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person.
Seth Godin
Topics: Leadership, Management, Ideas

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.
Seth Godin

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission—which is emotional connection.
Seth Godin

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.
Seth Godin
Topics: Business

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
Seth Godin
Topics: Mediocrity

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