Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
SETH GODINNine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
SETH GODINThere’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
SETH GODINTwo elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
SETH GODINPeople get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
SETH GODINDenigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
SETH GODINSet a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
SETH GODINSomewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
SETH GODINChange isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
SETH GODINYour art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
SETH GODINLeaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
SETH GODINThe 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.
SETH GODINFire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
SETH GODINWe know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
SETH GODINJust saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
SETH GODINThere’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
SETH GODINYou can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
SETH GODIN