Seth Quotes

... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip

What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.

Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.

The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.

Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.

Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

There's no map for being an artist.

When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?

Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.