Seth Quotes

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform us.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood.

Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask.

The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

Just because you’re winning a game doesn’t mean it’s a good game.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel.

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

In a world of free, everyone can play.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned.

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.

If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth.

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.

The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.

Stop advertising and start innovating.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant.

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.