Seth Godin is an American author and former dot com business executive.
In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you.
As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.
My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.
People get good gigs because they stand up. . . . You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
Choose your customers, choose your future.
Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.
One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
We notice what we choose to notice.
We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
The world is begging for you to lead.
The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented. . . They come from inventing new questions!
Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.