Seth Quotes

You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.

Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.

Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.

Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.

You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Go ahead, do something impossible.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon

Art is a personal act of courage.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.

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

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

The problem with working with 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.

We're all vulnerable, and it's all hackable. If someone wants you and has targeted you, you can be taken down, and that fact is really scary.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.