Quote

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

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
Based
Herd
Mass
Herds
Media
Dynamics
Black
Trap
Cycle
Traps
Orchestrated
Friday
Hallucination
Cycles
Hallucinations

More quotes by Seth Godin

Image
A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
Seth Godin
Image
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
Seth Godin
Image
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
Seth Godin
Image
For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
Seth Godin
Image
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
Seth Godin
Image
Go ahead, do something impossible.
Seth Godin
Image
Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
Seth Godin
Image
You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps
Seth Godin
Image
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
Seth Godin
Image
Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.
Seth Godin
Image
How was your day? If your answer was fine, then I don't think you were leading.
Seth Godin
Image
Think big. Start small.
Seth Godin
Image
Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.
Seth Godin
Image
Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
Seth Godin
Image
After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
Seth Godin
Image
Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.
Seth Godin
Image
The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Seth Godin
Image
So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
Seth Godin
Image
The job isn't to catch up to the status quo the job is to invent the status quo.
Seth Godin
Image
Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.
Seth Godin