Seth Godin Quotes
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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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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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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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Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
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An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.
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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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You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
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Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.
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Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
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When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
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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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Seeing, despite the name, isn’t merely visual.
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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
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While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
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At the heart of art is learning to see
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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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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
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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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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.