Seth Quotes

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.

Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

Say what you believe and see who follows.

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.

We notice what we choose to notice.

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

You can't lose. Go, go, go!

The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Who gets to decide what you want?

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

Play a new game, not the older game but faster.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

Shame must be accepted to be effective.

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.

The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.

If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Great work is always shunned at first.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

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

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.