Seth Godin Quotes

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

Creating value through interaction is far more important than solving a consumer’s problem in thirty seconds.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Everyone has a little voice inside of their head that's angry and afraid.

It’s insulting to call a professional talented. She’s skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Persistent, consistent, and frequent stories, delivered to an aligned audience, will earn attention, trust, and action. Direct

A great school experience won’t keep you from being remarkable, but it’s usually not sufficient to guarantee that you will become so. There’s something else at work here.

Great design = getting people to do what you want.

If times are tough, your peers and your boss may very well say that you can’t afford to be remarkable. After all, we have to conserve, to play it safe; we don’t have the money to make a mistake. In good times, however, those same people will tell you to relax, take it easy; we can afford to be conservative, to play it safe.

Abundance is possible, but only if we can imagine it and then embrace it.

Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories — stories that resonate and spread.

Faith is underrated. Paradoxically, religion is vastly overrated.

What we want, what we need, what we must have are indispensable human beings. We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care. We need marketers who can lead, salespeople able to risk making a human connection, passionate change makers willing to be shunned if it is necessary for them to make a point. Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference. Some organizations haven't realized this yet, or haven't articulated it, but we need artists. Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.

Leadership isn't something that people hand to you. ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.