Seth Godin Quotes
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You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
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There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.
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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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Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
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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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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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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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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
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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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When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?
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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.
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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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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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Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.
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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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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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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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Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
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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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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.