Seth Godin is an American author and former dot com business executive.
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.
Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.
No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?
My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “ “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “ “Everyone is not your customer. “ “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something. . . loud, now, and memorable.
Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.