Seth Godin Quotes
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Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations
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Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection
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Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.
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Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
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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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It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.
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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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Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.
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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
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The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).
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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 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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Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
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In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
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You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.
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Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.
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We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
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Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.
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The enemy of fear is creativity.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.