Seth Godin Quotes
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I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
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If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.
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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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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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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.
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We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.
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No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
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If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
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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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If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.
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Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
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Go for the edges. Challenge yourself and your team to describe what those edges are, and then test which edge is most likely to deliver the marketing results you seek.
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I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
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Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.
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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
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If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.
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Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.
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If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
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The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.
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It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.