Seth Godin Quotes
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Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
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Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.
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Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
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You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.
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The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.
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Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.
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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
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In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.
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If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
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Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?
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Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message
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If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?
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The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.
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The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?
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That's why there's lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it's hard to make interesting mustard - you could make interesting mustard - but people don't, because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.
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It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.
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In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.
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Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.
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As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!
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If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?