Seth Quotes

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

Everyone is not your customer.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Choose your customers, choose your future.

Depressions aren't good but the depression mentality is good.

Costs and liabilities are rarely overstated.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Be focused on process and not outcome

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.

It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.

Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

At the heart of art is learning to see

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Ideas that spread win.

When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

If you want to be a leader, go lead

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.