Seth Godin Quotes
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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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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.
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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
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There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.
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There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
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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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You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.
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We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.
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Communication is the transfer of emotion.
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The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.
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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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Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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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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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
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The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.
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I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.