Seth Quotes

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.

It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place.

Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

When I was a little kid, I used to say, "I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar." To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

While knowing how to value businesses is essential for investment success, the first and perhaps most important step in the investment process is knowing where to look for opportunities

Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.

If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.