Quotes from Seth Godin

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

Soon is not as good as now.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

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

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.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

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.

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

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.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

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.

By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.