Seth Godin Quotes
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
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Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.
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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
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The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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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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Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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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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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
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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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The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.
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Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.
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Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.
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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 can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.
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Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.
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This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
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I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
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Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.