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
ability wells
Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.
water competition want
Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
done world decided
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
moving knowing keys
One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
admitting firsts steps
The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).
art mean art-is
What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
responsibility rocks organization
I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
unique people pay
If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.
swimming risk celebrate
We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
artist entrepreneur
All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.
goal maps gone
If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
progress path cliffs
Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
jobs conformist
The job is not the work.
persistence goal tactics
Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.