Seth Quotes

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

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

Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.

The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

All Marketers are liars tell stories.

Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.

But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

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

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

No niche is too small if it's yours.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?

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

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.

If you measure it, it will improve.

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.

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