Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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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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Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.
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The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
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When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
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You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.
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The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.
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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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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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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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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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Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.
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People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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Plans are great, but missions are better.
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Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
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What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
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Data is not useful until it becomes information.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
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Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
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I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.
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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.