Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass.
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Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do. We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.
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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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The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.
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The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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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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The world is begging for you to lead.
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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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Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
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It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
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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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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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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
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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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Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.
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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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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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If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.
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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.
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Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?