Seth Godin Quotes
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We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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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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Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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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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Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.
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Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.
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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
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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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If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more
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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.
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.
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The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win
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When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.
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The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.
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... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.
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Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.
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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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Good marketers tell a story.
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You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.
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Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.