Seth Godin Quotes

Faith is underrated. Paradoxically, religion is vastly overrated.

Real leaders don't care [about receiving credit]. If it's about your mission, about spreading the faith, about seeing something happen, not only do you not care about credit, you actually want other people to take credit...There's no record of Martin Luther King, Jr. or Gandhi whining about credit. Credit isn't the point. Change is.

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

Life’s too short to fight the forces of change. Life’s too short to hate what you do all day. Life’s way too short to make mediocre stuff.

When you hire amazing people and give them freedom, they do amazing stuff.

strategy is empty without change, empty without passion, and empty without people willing to confront the void.

The linchpin feels the fear, acknowledges it, then proceeds. I can't tell you how to do this; I think the answer is different for everyone. What I can tell you is that in today's economy, doing it is a prerequisite for success.

The Dip is the long stretch between beginner’s luck and real accomplishment.

Everything gets easier when you walk away from the hubris of everyone. Your work is not for everyone. It’s only for those who signed up for the journey.

What people are afraid of isn’t failure. It’s blame. Criticism.

And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world.

Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.

If you're brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you're being too generous about your definition of brilliant.

Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

She solves problems that people haven’t predicted, sees things people haven’t seen, and connects people who need to be connected.