Seth Godin Quotes

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

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

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.

I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Good marketers tell a story.

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.

Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.