Seth Godin Quotes
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I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
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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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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
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Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
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Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
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The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
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The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
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If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
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If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.
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The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.
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Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
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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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Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
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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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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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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
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If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
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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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The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.