Seth Godin Quotes
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Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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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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Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
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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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If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
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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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Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
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Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
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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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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
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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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Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.
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The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.
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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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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
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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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Habits are more powerful than fears.
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Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.
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The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
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We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.
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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).
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.