Seth Godin Quotes
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
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The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.
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Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
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In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.
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Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
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Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
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Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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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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We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
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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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By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.
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Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.
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The enemy of fear is creativity.
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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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The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
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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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Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
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Plans are great, but missions are better.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.