Seth Godin Quotes

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don’t show (because it’s difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.

They told you to get your résumé in order, to punch your ticket, to fit in, and to follow instructions. They told you to swallow your pride, not to follow your dream. They promised trinkets and prizes and possibly riches if you would just suck it up and be part of the system, if you would merely do what you were told and conform. They sold you debt and self-storage and reality TV shows. They sold your daughters and sons, too.

All in exchange for what would happen later, when it was your turn. It’s your turn.

There’s not a lot to say about the Cul-de-Sac except to realize that it exists and to embrace the fact that when you find one, you need to get off it, fast. That’s because a dead end is keeping you from doing something else. The opportunity cost of investing your life in something that’s not going to get better is just too high.

Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories — stories that resonate and spread.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them. ~ Seth Godin

Extraordinary benefits also accrue to the tiny majority with the guts to quit early and refocus their efforts on something new.

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better

To be a superstar, you must do something exceptional. Not just survive the Dip, but use the Dip as an opportunity to create something so extraordinary that people can’t help but talk about it, recommend it, and, yes, choose it.

They say the best way to complain is to make things better.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map — these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

We sell feelings, status, and connection, not tasks or stuff.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

All coping does is waste your time and misdirect your energy. If the best you can do is cope, you’re better off quitting.

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.