Seth Godin
Seth Godin
Seth Godinis an American author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth10 July 1960
CityMount Vernon, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Seth Godin quotes about
- shame
- accepted
- competence
- scarce
- somewhere-else
- choices
- proud
- great-work
- results
- tension
- curves
- learning-curve
- activity
- anything-worth-doing
- resistance
- avoided
- niche
- ifs
- marketing
- definitions
- advertising
- failure-is-not-an-option
- want
- messages
- legends
- wonder
- following-instructions
- overrated
- relatable
- microphones
business entrepreneur ass
The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.
brands
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
dream circles outcomes
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
ideas hot-sauce want
To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency within otaku is almost impossible. There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.
tasks difficult difficult-tasks
When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
business opportunity goal
Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
business ideas missing
There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.
hands people bird
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
effort rewards ifs
Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
media giving people
So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.
clever people way
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
positive positivity thinking
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
perfect definitions revolution
The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
epidemiology space people
Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.