Seth Godin Quotes
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Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
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Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.
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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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The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.
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Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
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It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'
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You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.
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The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.
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Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.
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If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
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No niche is too small if it's yours.
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If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
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In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.
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The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
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The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.
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If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
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There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.