Seth Godin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.”

“Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.”

“I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.”

“If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.”

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

“This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.”

“Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.”

“The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.”

“Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.”

“My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.”