Seth Godin Quotes
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I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
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For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
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If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
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Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations
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The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
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Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.
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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.
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You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
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You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.
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Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.
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Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.
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Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
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If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
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If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.