Seth Godin

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

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

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

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.

A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

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

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

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

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

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

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