Seth Godin Quotes

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

"Everyone will think it's stupid!"
"Everyone says it's impossible."
Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship. Shipping means hitting the publish button on your blog, showing a presentation to the sales team, answering the phone, selling the muffins, sending out your references. Shipping is the collision between your work and the outside world.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
That would be you.

The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don't stop.

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Don’t worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

The old rule was this: CREATE SAFE, ORDINARY PRODUCTS AND COMBINE THEM WITH GREAT MARKETING. The new rule is: CREATE REMARKABLE PRODUCTS THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE SEEK OUT.

That's your opportunity — to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit.

The opportunity cost of investing your life in something that’s not going to get better is just too high.

The status quo doesn’t shift because you’re right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you’ll be blameless.