Seth Godin Quotes

Competence is the enemy of change!

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.

By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at #‎ camp

Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.

The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !

No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.

In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work

The only purpose of starting is to finish

You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.

Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing . But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now.

The enemy of creativity is fear.

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.