Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.
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Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
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The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.
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Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
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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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Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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You can't lose. Go, go, go!
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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
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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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If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.
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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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You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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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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But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.
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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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Play a new game, not the older game but faster.
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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.