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
inspirational running goal
Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.
dime lens million nickel penny seem until
If a lens makes a penny or a nickel or a dime a day, it doesn't seem like much until there's a million of them.
wonder
What Wonder understood, that Otto did not, is that if your idea spreads, you win,
blogging clear crowd effective ignoring useful
Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.
create deeper direct finest history mail mechanism net relationships richer
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before.
status-quo
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
anxiety challenges
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
waiting fine plans
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.
girlfriend powerful school
You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.
doing-what-you-love loving-what-you-do important
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
technology people figures
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
mirrors epidemiology elements
We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?
marketing stories marketers
Good marketers tell a story.
marketing busy invisible
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.