Seth Godin Quotes

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.

Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.

The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

Confusion sets in when you're not sure if your product or service is bought or sold, or worse, if you are a salesperson just waiting for people to buy.

... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

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.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip

What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.

Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.

The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.

Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.