Post on 17-Jul-2015
16 Thought-Provoking Quotes From Today’s
Seth Godin
There are no longer any great jobs where
someone else tells you precisely what to do.
Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough valid stories about the
worst possible outcome of your work and you’ll soon come to believe them. Worry is not
preparation, and anxiety doesn’t make you better.
How was your day? If your answer was "fine,"
then I don't think you were leading.
Simon Sinek
It is not the genius at the top giving directions that make people great. It is great people that make the
guy at the top look like a genius.
You have to be careful what you think you know.
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you
can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.
Larry Keeley
Every single employee of every single company needs to stand in the future and embrace it – no matter how difficult or scary it feels or how impossible a goal seems to achieve.
Innovation mostly fails. It doesn’t need to.
Don’t let it.
Target big, gnarly problems with no easy answer. This isn’t about what’s easy for you; it’s about solving deep problems for your customers.
See where your competitors are focusing – and then make different choices.
Chris Brogan
Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.
Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a
way that people can understand.
Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.
This is your moment. Draw up your plans, simple ones, and go after them. Take a
shot. And if it doesn’t work, take another, and another, and win.
Thanks for
reading.