Seth Godin Quotes
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One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
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You can't lose. Go, go, go!
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The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.
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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.
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The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.
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If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.
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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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Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
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Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.
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Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.
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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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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
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Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.
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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
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Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.
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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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You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
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I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.
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So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.