Quote

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

Seth Godin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
Author
Blogger
Computer Scientist
Economist
Entrepreneur
Writer
Mount Vernon
New York
Mediocrity
Invisible
Please
Everyone
Desire
Easy
Ends
Mediocre

More quotes by Seth Godin

Image
Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.
Seth Godin
Image
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.
Seth Godin
Image
You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
Seth Godin
Image
If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.
Seth Godin
Image
Everyone will think it's stupid! Everyone says it's impossible. Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.
Seth Godin
Image
If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
Seth Godin
Image
The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.
Seth Godin
Image
One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
Seth Godin
Image
The opposite of coherent is interesting.
Seth Godin
Image
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked quit waiting for someone to give you permission quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.
Seth Godin
Image
Content marketing is the only marketing left
Seth Godin
Image
Plans are great, but missions are better.
Seth Godin
Image
Ideas that spread win.
Seth Godin
Image
If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.
Seth Godin
Image
You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
Seth Godin
Image
If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.
Seth Godin
Image
If you want to be a leader, go lead
Seth Godin
Image
Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do. We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.
Seth Godin
Image
How was your day? If your answer was fine, then I don't think you were leading.
Seth Godin
Image
Playing safe is very risky.
Seth Godin