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
technology hands competition
The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
business customers
Everyone is not your customer.
business giving-up ideas
Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
business commitment organization
If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
winning games competition
Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
curiosity want firsts
Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
dream school giving
School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.
purple keys cows
The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
competition copies industry
Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
path tribes doing-nothing
The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
guy care needs
Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
people different compromise
Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.
opposites interesting
The opposite of coherent is interesting.
important passionate products
It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.