Seth Godin Quotes
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Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!
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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 way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.
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Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
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Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
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Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!
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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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The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.
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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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There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.
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We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.
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Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.
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Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
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Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.
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Competent people are the most resistant to change