Seth Godin Quotes
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We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
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Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.
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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
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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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Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do. We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.
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Communication is the transfer of emotion.
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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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Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.
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The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
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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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Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
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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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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
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Good marketers tell a story.
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The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.
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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
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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.
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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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Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.
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The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.
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Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.
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Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.
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Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.
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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.