Seth Godin Quotes
-
Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).
-
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.
-
You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.
-
The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
-
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Surprise comes from defying expectations.
-
Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
-
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.
-
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
-
One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.
-
Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.
-
When your art fails, make better art.
-
If you measure it, it will improve.
-
Art is what we do when we're truly alive.
-
Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
-
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
-
Seeing, despite the name, isn’t merely visual.
-
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
-
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
-
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.
-
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
-
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?