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Seth Godin quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: b. July 10, 1960

Birthday: July 10

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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

source: - FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Mar 21, 2014

Topics: People, Observing

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Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

Topics: Succeed, Fit, Being The Best, Well Rounded

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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Topics: Jobs, Positivity, Status Quo

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The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!

Topics: Dark, Done, Boxes

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Topics: Leadership, Art, Ideas, Funny Leadership, Leadership By Great Leaders

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

Topics: Jobs, Trouble, Raises

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

source: - Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

Topics: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Ingenious, Need A Vacation

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

Topics: Book, Stories, Paper, Paper Books

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Topics: Positivity, Long, Strategy, Long Term Goals

There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

Topics: Thinking, Order, Discipline, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

Topics: Mistake, Sweat, Decision, Learning Lessons

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

Topics: Unique, Differences, Lines, Assembly Line

If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

Topics: Responsibility, People, Survivor, Serials

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

source: - Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.14, Penguin

Topics: Anxiety, Challenges

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

Topics: Expectations, People, Giving, Great Boss

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Topics: Business, Air, Ideas

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Topics: Motivation, Self, Long, Self Motivated

Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.

Topics: Delight, Skeptic, Believer, Working So Hard

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

Topics: Average, People, Care

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

Topics: Business, Challenges, Blogging

I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.

Topics: People, Feels, Treated

Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

Topics: Mean, Perfection, Promise

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

Topics: Motivational, Leadership, Running

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.

Topics: Doing What You Love, Important, Needs, Loving What You Do

We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

Topics: Real, Done, Want

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

Topics: Thinking, Giving, Found, Gift Giving

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

Topics: Teacher, Data, Clerks, Interfaces, Hounds

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

Topics: Favors, Return

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

Topics: Inspirational, Needs, Bigger

Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.

Topics: Dream, Way

The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

Topics: Done, Tables, Problem

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Topics: Business, Believe, People, Motivational Business

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

Topics: Business, Opportunity, Goal

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Topics: Positive, Ideas, Optimism, Better Tomorrow, Positivity And Optimism

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

Topics: Hands, People, Bird, Bird Flying

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

Topics: Clever, People, Way, Marketers

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Topics: Marketing, Busy, Invisible, Crowded Places, Not Fitting

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

Topics: Jobs, Opportunity, People

Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.

Topics: Effort, Rewards

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Topics: Perfect, Definitions, Revolution

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Topics: Art, Marketing, Valuable, Brilliance

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

Topics: Leader, Als, World

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

Topics: Creativity, Artist, Might

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Topics: Art, Decision, Looking Forward

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Topics: Change, Asking, Permission, Asking Permission

Go ahead, do something impossible.

Topics: Greatness, Impossible

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Topics: Leader, Followers, Employee

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

Topics: Kings, Leader, Crave

Playing safe is very risky.

Topics: Business, Safe

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Topics: Inspirational, Running, Goal, Sun Set

People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

Topics: Responsibility, People, Taking Responsibility

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

Topics: Choices, Making Choices, Remarkable

The best way to be missed when you're gone, Is to stand for something when you're here

Topics: Gone, Way, Stand For Something

Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.

Topics: Dream, Circles, Outcomes

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

Topics: Hard Work, Generosity, Long

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

Topics: Art, Alive, Art Is

The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.

Topics: People, Truth Is, Universal Truth

The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.

Topics: Way, Very Good, Grows

The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

Topics: Thinking, Work Out, Choices

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Topics: Attention, Bigs

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Topics: Failing, Missions, Plans

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

Topics: Business, Failing, Starting, Successful Business

Good marketers measure.

Topics: Marketing, Marketers

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

Topics: Inspirational, Trying, Scare, Ingenious, Inspirational Career

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Topics: Great Work, Uncomfortable

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

Topics: Adjusting, Today, Chance, Poke

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

Topics: Light, Ideas, Tunnels, End Of The Tunnel, Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

Topics: Attitude, Inspirational Life, Artist

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Topics: Inspirational, Fear, Smart

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Topics: Art, Business, Creativity

Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

Topics: People, Boss, Safe

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Topics: Motivational, Business, Design, Marketing And Sales, Loyalty In Business

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Topics: Failure, Secret, Realizing, Being Wrong

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Topics: Inspirational, Change, Too Late, Ingenious

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Topics: Competition, Requirements, Way

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

Topics: Leadership, Business, Winning

Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

Topics: Mean, Passion, People

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

source: - Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.174, Penguin

Topics: Peace, Jobs, Passion

It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.

Topics: Too Late, Headings, Never Too Late, Right Direction, Heading In The Right Direction

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

Topics: Catchy, Aim, Bother

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Topics: Mediocrity

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Topics: Jobs, Doors, Needs, True Nature

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Topics: Art, Pieces, Wonder

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Topics: Done, Imagine

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Topics: Thinking

If you want to be a leader, go lead

Topics: Leader, Want

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

Topics: Trying, Delight, Miserable

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

Topics: Art, Unique, Impact, Acts Of Courage, Painting Art

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

Topics: Life Changing, Differences, What Matters

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

Topics: Matter, Succeed

A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.

Topics: Brands

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

Topics: People, Done, Problem

You can't win by being more average than average.

Topics: Winning, Average

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

Topics: Careers, Littles, Way

We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

Topics: Creative, Littles, Born

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

Topics: Long, Why Not, Mediocrity, Being Good Enough

If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world

source: - "A legacy of Mandela". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 05, 2013.

Topics: Journey, Safe, World

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Topics: Leader, Charismatic, Being A Leader

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

Topics: Wrecks, Persons

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

Topics: Differences, People, Waiting

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

Topics: Waiting, Mediocrity, Bars, Raising The Bar

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

Topics: Choices, Mediocrity, Settling

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Topics: Art, Responsibility, People, Conformist, Challenging The Status Quo

Art is a personal act of courage.

Topics: Art, Acts Of Courage, Art Is, Personal Courage

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

Topics: Leadership, People, Management

The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

Topics: Creativity, Creative, Enemy

Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.

Topics: Wise, Business, Perfect, Wise Decision, Perfect One

I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Games, Raising The Bar

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

Topics: Character, Squares, Mind, 140 Character

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

Topics: Firsts, Matter, Bases

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

Topics: Keys, Acting, Brilliant

The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.

Topics: Book, Writing, Years

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

Topics: Waiting, Too Late, Ready

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

Topics: Voice, Vocabulary, People, Blogs

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

Topics: Real, Book, Scarcity, Paper Books, Real Books

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Topics: Giving, Leader, Looks

The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.

Topics: Motivational, Running, Opportunity, Bounce

If I fail more than you do, I win.

Topics: Winning, Failing

Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

source: - Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

Topics: Marketing, Promise, Way, Marketers, Great Marketing

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Topics: Honor, Criticism, Ruins, Bad Reviews

Good marketers tell a story.

Topics: Marketing, Stories, Marketers

Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.

Topics: Hands, Insightful, Intuition, Forecasts

If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.

Topics: Believe, Ideas, Faults

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

Topics: Leadership, People, Engagement, Afraid Of Failure

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Topics: People, Mind Your Own Business, Gigs, Poke

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

Topics: Leadership, Trying, Tiny

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

Topics: Dark, Mushrooms, Return

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

Topics: Differences, Marketing, Making A Difference

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

Topics: People, Marketing, Remarkable

Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

Topics: Worry, Marketing, Poet

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

Topics: Tasks, Difficult, Values, Difficult Tasks

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon

Topics: Marketing, Definitions, Advertising

If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

Topics: Listening, Questioning

The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

Topics: Heart, Journey, Soul

Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

Topics: Mean, Goal, Proud, Daily Habits

One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

Topics: Struggle, Differences, Making A Difference

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Topics: Teacher, Art, Book

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

Topics: Bars, Facts, Example, Raising The Bar, Thousand Miles

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

Topics: Fun

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Topics: Ideas, Execution, Great Idea

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

Topics: Way, Alternatives, Action

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.

Topics: Waiting, Fine, Plans, Waiting And Hoping

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

Topics: Goal, Perfect, Important

At the heart of art is learning to see

Topics: Art, Heart, Art Is

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

Topics: Life, Art, Work

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.

Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.

Topics: Running, Home, Ideas, Holding Back

We fail when we give up too soon.

Topics: Giving Up, Giving, Failing

Keep starting until you finish.

Topics: Starting

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

Topics: Thinking, Organization, Average

The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

Topics: Reason, Wasting Your Time, Website

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

Topics: Winning, Race, Might

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Topics: Running, Long, Important, Profitable

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

Topics: Mean, Important, Doe

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

Topics: Emotional, Organization, People

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Topics: Status Quo

Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.

Topics: Workout, Data, Decision

The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

Topics: Moving, Opportunity, Goal

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps

Topics: Wings, Safety, People, Valve

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

Topics: Mean, Anxiety, Imaginary

Criticism comes to those who stand out.

Topics: Criticism, Standing Out

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.

Topics: Humility, Average, Great Work

The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

Topics: Winning, Average, Settling

If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.

source: - Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.76, Penguin

Topics: Differences, People, Doubt

One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.

Topics: Inspirational, Kindness, People

Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.

Topics: Decision, Get Better, Way

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Topics: Art, Pain, Safety

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Topics: Hurt, Art, Willingness To Learn

Not adding value is the same as taking it away.

Topics: Adding Value, Values

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Topics: Favors

A book is a souvenir of an idea.

Topics: Book, Ideas, Souvenirs

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

Topics: Running, Path

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

Topics: Years, Nine, Different, Years Of Experience

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Topics: Successful, Simple, Thinking

The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

Topics: Artist, Differences, Yesterday, Accomplish Your Goals

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

Topics: Beautiful, Brave, Culture

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Topics: Art, Tragedy, Would Be

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.

Topics: Running, Distance, Tired

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

Topics: Memories, Taken, Expectations, Personal Branding

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Topics: Successful, Two, Elements, Eagerness

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

Topics: Winning, Ideas, People

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

Topics: Believe, Risk, Want

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Topics: Technology, People, Figures

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.

Topics: Gratitude, Opportunity

Communication is the transfer of emotion.

Topics: Communication, Emotion, Transfers

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

Topics: Differences, Settling, Bigs, Not Settling

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

Topics: Encouraging, Persistence, Ideas, Great Talent, Big Ideas

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Goal, Support

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

Topics: People, World

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Topics: Journey, Talking, People, Yin And Yang

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ...

Topics: Winning, Innovation, Trying, Trying And Failing

Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.

Topics: Marketing, Permission, Interruptions

Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.

Topics: Path, Use, Environment

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

Topics: Motivational, Self, Boss, Coworker, Accomplish Nothing

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

Topics: People, Path, Easy, Path To Success

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Topics: Dead Ends, Ends, Situation

The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.

Topics: Determination, People, Important

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

Topics: Success, Waiting, Marketing, Case Studies

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Topics: Business, Smart, Perfect, Monday Motivation

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

Topics: Practice, Habit

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