Quote

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

Seth Godin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
Author
Blogger
Computer Scientist
Economist
Entrepreneur
Writer
Mount Vernon
New York
Validates
Permits
Sale
Category
Categories
Permit
Creates
Competition

More quotes by Seth Godin

Image
The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
Seth Godin
Image
Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
Seth Godin
Image
We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.
Seth Godin
Image
Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.
Seth Godin
Image
One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
Seth Godin
Image
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
Seth Godin
Image
Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message
Seth Godin
Image
The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?
Seth Godin
Image
Confusion sets in when you're not sure if your product or service is bought or sold, or worse, if you are a salesperson just waiting for people to buy.
Seth Godin
Image
Surprise comes from defying expectations.
Seth Godin
Image
How was your day? If your answer was fine, then I don't think you were leading.
Seth Godin
Image
Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
Seth Godin
Image
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
Seth Godin
Image
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.
Seth Godin
Image
If you measure it, it will improve.
Seth Godin
Image
What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.
Seth Godin
Image
If you want to be a leader, go lead
Seth Godin
Image
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Seth Godin
Image
I think creativity is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
Seth Godin
Image
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
Seth Godin