Quotes from Seth Godin
As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
- Seth Godin
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
- Seth Godin
I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.
- Seth Godin
This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
- Seth Godin
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
- Seth Godin
Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
- Seth Godin
Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
- Seth Godin
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
- Seth Godin
The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.
- Seth Godin
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
- Seth Godin
In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.
- Seth Godin
The job is not the work.
- Seth Godin