Seth Godin Quotes

If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

Criticism comes to those who stand out.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

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

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

Art is a personal act of courage.

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.

Go ahead, do something impossible.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.