a collection of quotes from seth godin

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A Collection of Quotes

from

Seth Godin

Seth Godin is an American author, entrepreneur,

marketer, public speaker, and agent of change. is

author of ten books that have been bestsellers

around the world, and he is also a renowned

speaker. He was recently chosen as one of 21

Speakers for the Next Century by Successful

Meetings and is consistently rated among the very

best speakers by the audiences he addresses.

Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, the

industry's leading interactive direct marketing

company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998.

Born: 1960, Mount Vernon, New York

Education: Tufts University

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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.”

– Seth Godin


“If you're going to build a

lean enterprise, you can

test and measure how

often the company ships

iterations, how often it

fails, how often it is

putting things in front of

people that don't work.”

– Seth Godin


“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.”

– Seth Godin


“Most people have

bosses who hire them to

fill a slot in the work chart

and to do what they are

told. And most people

who are doing what they

are told feel safe; it feels

reliable.”

– Seth Godin


“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.”

– Seth Godin


“The thing about information

is that information is more

valuable when people know

it. There's an exception for

business information and

super timely information, but

in all other cases, ideas that

spread win.”

– Seth Godin


“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.”

– Seth Godin


“Our job is to make

change. Our job is to

interact with them in a

way that leaves them

better than we found

them, more able to get

where they’d like to go.”

– Seth Godin


“The largest enemy of

change and

leadership isn’t ‘no’,

it’s a ‘not yet.’ ‘Not

yet’ is the safest,

easiest way to

forestall change.”

– Seth Godin


“If you don’t have

time to do it right,

what makes you

think you’ll have

time to do it over?”

– Seth Godin


“Organizations that

destroy the status quo

win. Whatever the

status quo is, changing

it gives you the

opportunity to be

remarkable.”

– Seth Godin


“The real problem when

working with a consultant,

a therapist or a coach

isn’t that we don’t know

what to do. The real

problem is that we don’t

want to change our mind.”

– Seth Godin


“Remarkable

visions and

genuine insights

are always met

with resistance.”

– Seth Godin


“Leadership, on

the other hand, is

about creating

change you

believe in.”

– Seth Godin


“Leadership is the

art of giving people

a platform for

spreading ideas

that work.”

– Seth Godin


“Perhaps your challenge

isn't finding a better project

or a better boss. Perhaps

you need to get in touch

with what it means to feel

passionate. People with

passion look for ways to

make things happen.”

– Seth Godin


“Change almost

never fails because

it's too early. It

almost always fails

because it's too

late.”

– Seth Godin


“What could you

measure? What would

that cost? How fast

could you get the

results? If you can afford

it, try it. If you measure

it, it will improve.”

– Seth Godin


“The easiest thing is

to react. The second

easiest is to

respond. But the

hardest thing

is to initiate.”

– Seth Godin


“Don’t find

customers for your

products, find

products for your

customers.”

– Seth Godin


“Hope without a strategy

doesn’t generate

leadership. Leadership

comes when your hope

and your optimism are

matched with a concrete

vision of the future and a

way to get there.”

– Seth Godin

a collection of quotes from seth godin

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