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
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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.
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The most popular TV show in America is a game show, ... People have been playing our games for years and are playing more and more games. The relationship they build is similar to a magazine that has a subscription base or a newspaper with home delivery customers.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
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Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.
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to click on a link or buy online.
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We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,
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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?'
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The ability to change fast is the single most important asset in a world that's changing fast.
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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.
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Give up control and give it away, ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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What Wonder understood, that Otto did not, is that if your idea spreads, you win,
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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.
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I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.
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If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.