Seth Godin Quotes
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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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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If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.
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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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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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Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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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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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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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.
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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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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
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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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Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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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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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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Play a new game, not the older game but faster.
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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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Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.