Seth Godin Quotes

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.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.

When our name is on a project, our ego pushes us over the hump and drives us to do even better work.

As Susan Kare, designer of the original Mac interface, said, “You can’t really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you’re lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it’s meaningful.

Anatomy of a Movement

Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: (1) A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build. (2) A connection between and among the leader and the tribe. (3) Something to do - the fewer limits the better. Too often organizations fail to do anything but the third.

Think for a second about the people you know who are engaged, satisfied, eager to get to work. Most of them, I'll bet, make change.

Emotional labor is what you get paid to do, and one of the most difficult types of emotional labor is staring into the abyss of choice and picking a path.

You are not your work. Your work is a series of choices made with generous intent to cause something to happen. We can always learn to make better choices.

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

The old rule was this: CREATE SAFE, ORDINARY PRODUCTS AND COMBINE THEM WITH GREAT MARKETING. The new rule is: CREATE REMARKABLE PRODUCTS THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE SEEK OUT.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you’re going to get there one way or another…so they follow.

This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that?

the best time to start was last year. The second best time to start is right now.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.