Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
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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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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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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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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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You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
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Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.
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The job is not the work.
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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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Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.
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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.
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You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.
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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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Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.