Seth Godin Quotes

Sure, ideas that spread, win, but ideas that don’t get spoken always fail.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.

The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

"The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes"

It’s more about a five- or ten- or fifteen-year process where you start finding your voice, and finally you begin to realize that the safest thing you can do feels risky and the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Tearing others down is never as helpful to a movement as building your followers up.

Turning you Passion into your Job is easier than finding a Job that matches your passion

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map — these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Starting isn’t like that. Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events. You decide to walk to Cleveland. So you take a first step in the right direction. That’s starting. You spend the rest of the day walking toward Cleveland, one step at a time, picking your feet up and putting them down. At the end of the day, twenty miles later, you stop at a hotel. And what happens the next morning? Either you quit the project or you start again, walking to Cleveland. In fact, every step is a new beginning. Sure, you’re closer than you were yesterday or last week, but you’re still...

If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn’t lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

If consumers have everything they need, there’s nothing left to buy except stuff that they want. And the reason they buy stuff they want is because of the way it makes them feel.

Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees.