Seth Godin Quotes
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The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.
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No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.
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Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.
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The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.
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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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Listen to your fear but don't obey 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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The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.
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Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
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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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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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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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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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It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.
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We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.
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My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
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Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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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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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.