Seth Godin Quotes
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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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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I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
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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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It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.
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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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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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Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.
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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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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.
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Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.
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Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
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Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
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If you measure it, it will improve.
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I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
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Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
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The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
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All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.
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Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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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.