Seth Godin
Seth Godin
Seth Godinis an American author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth10 July 1960
CityMount Vernon, NY
CountryUnited States of America
what-if bigger ifs
What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
average loser quitting
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
giving-up opportunity hands
Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.
action form standards
Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
anxiety information more-time
More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
art might causes
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.
organization tiny messages
Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message
life work lunch
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
people want do-you-know
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
leaving entering connections
We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.
doe way computer
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
people misunderstood world
The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.
struggle ideas people
Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.
brain lizards shut-up
Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.