‘Without the spark of initiative, you have no choice but to simply react to the world. Without the ability to instigate and experiment, you are stuck, adrift, waiting to be shoved.’- Seth Godin
‘Ownership doesn’t have to be equity or even control. Ownership comes from understanding and from having the power to make things happen.’- Seth Godin
‘The only defensible way to thrive is to double and then double again. To innovate on the way to innovating, to start on the way to starting yet again.’- Seth Godin
‘Aimless is where we end up when we don’t care so much about where we’re going, or we try to hide and limit our contributions.’- Seth Godin
‘Flux is flow. … The economy demands flux. Flux isn’t risky. Flux is what we’re in for. Fortunately, flux is also what we were born for.’- Seth Godin
‘Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you are told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.’- Seth Godin
‘Curiosity drives us to the haunted house because the thrills lie in what we don’t expect, not in what’s safe.’– Seth Godin
‘Change is powerful, but change always comes with failure as its partner.’- Seth Godin
‘If you don’t finish, it doesn’t really count as starting, and if you don’t start, you’re not poking.’- Seth Godin
‘... focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.’- Seth Godin
‘People get good gigs because they stand up.’
‘People with no credibility or resources rarely get the leverage they need to bring their ideas to the world. People with credibility and resources are so busy trying to hold on to them that they fail to bring their provocative ideas to the world.’
‘The greatest challenge any successful organization faces is finding the guts to risk that success in order to accomplish something great.’
‘Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events.’- Seth Godin
‘Every step is a new beginning.’- Seth Godin
‘Action is easy once you have a plan.’- Seth Godin
‘Starting doesn’t mean controlling. It means initiating. Managing means controlling…’- Seth Godin
Source
Seth Godin (2011). Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
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