Seth Godin Quotes
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The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
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Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.
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Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.
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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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Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
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New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
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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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That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
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It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
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That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.
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One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
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Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
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Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst 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.