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
book independent player
Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.
motivational writing player
If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.
ability asset change changing fast single
The ability to change fast is the single most important asset in a world that's changing fast.
wonder
What Wonder understood, that Otto did not, is that if your idea spreads, you win,
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.
gorilla offense online people walks
No offense intended...Most people online are gorillas. When a gorilla walks into an experiment, what they say is 'What do I do now? Where's the banana?'
buy click link
to click on a link or buy online.
former people yoga
We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,
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.
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.
blogs exist plenty room
I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that.
age flies innovate notion
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.
We're not going to outgrow our need for information.
limited proof publishers resources shelf work
Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.