Seth Godin Quotes
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
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If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.
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Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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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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The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.
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If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.
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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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Go for the edges. Challenge yourself and your team to describe what those edges are, and then test which edge is most likely to deliver the marketing results you seek.
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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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The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.
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A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement
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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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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
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Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
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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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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter Fail often Ship Lead, don't manage so much Seek out uncomfortable situations Make an impact on the people who matter to you Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else Copyedit less, invent more Give more speeches Ignore unsolicited advice
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You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.