Seth Godin Quotes
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.
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If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.
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I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
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Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.
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Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Be with the ones you love and the ones that love you. Ignore everyone else.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
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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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We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
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The enemy of fear is creativity.
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Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.
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Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
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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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Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.