Seth Godin Quotes
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.
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If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.
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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
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Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
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This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
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Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
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Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.
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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
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Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
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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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If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.
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Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.
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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
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All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
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It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.
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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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Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass.
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If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.
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Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.
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The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.
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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?