Seth Godin Quotes
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If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.
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The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
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Marketing is a contest for people's attention.
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Communication is the transfer of emotion.
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If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
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We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
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When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
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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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Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.
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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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Traditional sales and marketing involves increasing market shares, which means selling as much of your product as you can to as many customers as possible. One-to-one marketing involves driving for a share of customer, which means ensuring that each individual customer who buys your product buys more product, buys only your brand, and is happy using your product instead of another to solve his problem. The true, current value of any one customer is a function of the customer's future purchases, across all the product lines, brands, and services offered by you.
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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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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
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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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Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.
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What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.
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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.
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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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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?
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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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You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.
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Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.