Seth Godin Quotes
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Who gets to decide what you want?
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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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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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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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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
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Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.
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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
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Shame must be accepted to be effective.
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If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.
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No one is as smart as all of us.
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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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.