Seth Godin Quotes
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The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
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The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Data is not useful until it becomes information.
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Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
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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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Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.
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Criticism comes to those who stand out.
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If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
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Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.
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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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The world is begging for you to lead.
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Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.
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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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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
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Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.
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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
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New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.
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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.