Seth Godin Quotes
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.
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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.
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Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
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The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win
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Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.
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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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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
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The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
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You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.
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Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.
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Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
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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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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.