Seth Godin Quotes
-
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
-
We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.
-
Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
-
Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
-
Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.
-
Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.
-
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
-
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
-
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
-
In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
-
There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
-
It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
-
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.
-
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
-
Criticism comes to those who stand out.
-
The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.
-
Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.
-
Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can't see it but it's happening, daily.
-
Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
-
If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
-
It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
-
The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.
-
The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
-
Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.