Seth Godin Quotes
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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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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
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Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
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Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
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The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
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Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.
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Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.
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The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.
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If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
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Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.
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Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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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 can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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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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What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.
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The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?
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If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
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Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.
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How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.