Seth Godin Quotes

You do not equal the project. Criticism of the project is not criticism of you.

The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Once you’ve engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them. If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.

Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.

How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

- Seth Godin, sethgodin.com

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

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top.

the more crowded the marketplace, the busier your customers, the more you need the Purple Cow. Half-measures will fail. Overhauling the product with dramatic improvements in things the right customers care about, on the other hand, can have a huge payoff.

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

Instead of wondering when you're next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life that you don't need to escape from.

I spend 95% of my time persuading people to take action and just 5% of the time on the recipes.

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

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