Seth Godin Quotes
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You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.
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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps
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Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
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All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
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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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The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.
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Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
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In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.
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Competence is the enemy of change!
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Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.
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Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.
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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
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The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.
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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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I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.
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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
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We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important thing probably isn't even on your agenda.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.
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We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.