Seth Godin Quotes
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Plans are great, but missions are better.
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If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.
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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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Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
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If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.
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People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.
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Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
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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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The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.
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When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
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Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.
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Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
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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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If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
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By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.
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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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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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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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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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As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.
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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.