Seth Quotes

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.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

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

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

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

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

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.

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

The only problem is time.

There's no such thing as a value company. Price is all that matters. At some price, an asset is a buy, at another it's a hold, and at another it's a sell.

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

I think markets will never be efficient because of human nature.

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.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

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.

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.

Good marketers tell a story.

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

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

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

Most comedy comes out of misery.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

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

There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

Value investing is risk aversion.

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

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

Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Macro worries are like sports talk radio. Everyone has a good opinion which probably means that none of them are good.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

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

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

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

The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.