Seth Godin Quotes
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But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win
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The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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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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If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
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The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.
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Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.
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More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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Good marketers tell a story.
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
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The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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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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If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.