Seth Godin Quotes

I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

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

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.

Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

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

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Keep starting until you finish.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

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

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

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

If you want to be a leader, go lead

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

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?

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.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

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.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

No one is as smart as all of us.

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.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

'How was your day?' is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.

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

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

Everyone is not your customer.

Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.