Seth Godin Quotes
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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.
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It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.
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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
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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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Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.
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If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
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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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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.
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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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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 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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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 best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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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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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
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If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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Criticism comes to those who stand out.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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Skepticism doesn't help you hear.
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The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.