Seth Godin Quotes

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

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

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

In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

Communication is the transfer of emotion.

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

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

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

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

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

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

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

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

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

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

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

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

The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

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

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

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

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

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

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.

The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.

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.

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.

One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.

In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip

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

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.