Seth Godin Quotes
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One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
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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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All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
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The job is not the work.
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A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.
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You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
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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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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
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Marketing used to be what you say. Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.
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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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People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.
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The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
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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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The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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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.