The Dip Quotes

“Believe it or not, quitting is often a great strategy, a smart way to manage your life and your career. Sometimes, though, quitting is exactly the wrong thing to do.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“The second reason there are such tremendous benefits to being number one is a little more subtle. Being at the top matters because there’s room at the top for only a few.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Most of the time, we deal with the obstacles by persevering. Sometimes we get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: “Quitters never win and winners never quit.” Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Quitting is better than coping because quitting frees you up to excel at something else. “Never”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“The time to look for a new job is when you don’t need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable. Go. Switch. Challenge yourself; get yourself a raise and a promotion. You owe it to your career and your skills. If”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers. Am”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“If you’re going to quit, quit before you start. Reject the system. Don’t play the game if you realize you can’t be the best in the world. Average”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner. Before”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success. When”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“Quit the wrong stuff. Stick with the right stuff. Have the guts to do one or the other. The”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“الموهوبون فقط هم الذين يقلقون من الأداء المتواضع”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organisations. Reactive quitting and serial quitting are the bane of those that strive (and fail) to get what they want.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“The Dip is the long stretch between beginner’s luck and real accomplishment. The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it’s there. Knowing that you’re facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Before you enter a new market, consider what would happen if you managed to get through the Dip and win in the market you’re already in.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“There's no reason to keep investing in something that is not going to get better.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“It’s no wonder we quit. The system wants us to.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Harvard Medical School Is Not a Reason to Stick (Ignore Sunk Costs!) Best-selling author Michael Crichton quit as he was on his way to a career at the top of his profession. When he gave up medicine, Crichton had already graduated from Harvard Medical School and done a postdoctoral fellowship study at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, guaranteeing him a lucrative career as a doctor or as a researcher. He traded it for the unpredictable life of an author. Crichton had no stomach for cutting people open, and he decided he didn’t relish the future a medical career would bring him, regardless of how successful he might become at it. So he quit. Crichton saw that just because he had already gotten into Harvard, already earned a fellowship—already made it through the Dip—he didn’t have to spend the rest of his life doing something he didn’t enjoy in order to preserve his pride. He stopped cold turkey and started over. If he can quit, can you? Three Questions to Ask Before Quitting”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“If You’re Not Going
to Get to #1, You Might
as Well Quit Now”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can’t see it. At the same time, the smartest people are realistic about not imagining light when there isn’t any.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit

“The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out. If you took organic chemistry in college, you’ve experienced the Dip. Academia doesn’t want too many unmotivated people to attempt medical school, so they set up a screen.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, told me, “We knew that Google was going to get better every single day as we worked on it, and we knew that sooner or later, everyone was going to try it. So our feeling was that the later you tried it, the better it was for us because we’d make a better impression with better technology. So we were never in a big hurry to get you to use it today. Tomorrow would be better.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“If It Is Worth Doing, There's Probably a Dip”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Quitting creates scarcity; scarcity creates value.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“When Jack Welch remade GE, the most fabled decision he made was this: If we can’t be #1 or #2 in an industry, we must get out. Why sell a billion-dollar division that’s making a profit quite happily while ranking #4 in market share? Easy. Because it distracts management attention. It sucks resources and capital and focus and energy. And most of all, it teaches people in the organization that it’s okay not to be the best in the world. Jack quit the dead ends. By doing so, he freed resources to get his other businesses through the Dip.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“The next time you’re tempted to vilify a particularly obnoxious customer or agency or search engine, realize that this failed interaction is the best thing that’s happened to you all day long. Without it, you’d be easily replaceable. The dip is your very best friend.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“While one nonprofit runs from grant maker to grant maker seeking funds for this project or that one, a successful nonprofit sticks with a consistent theme, showing up, paying its dues, focusing on just a few foundations until the money comes through.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Average feels safe, but it’s not. It’s invisible. It’s the last choice—the path of least resistance. The temptation to be average is just another kind of quitting…the kind to be avoided. You deserve better than average.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“if we canceled the shuttle, we’d create an urgent need for a replacement. The lack of a way to get to space would force us to invent a new, better, cheaper alternative.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

“Most of the time, if you fail to become the best in the world, it’s either because you planned wrong or because you gave up before you reached your goal.”
― Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit