Seth Quotes

Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead.

Playing safe is very risky.

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.

The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.

If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

When people give away stocks based on forced selling or fear that is usually a great opportunity.

Communication is the transfer of emotion.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

I'm a complete coward in real life.

I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

The less people know, the more they yell.

Keep starting until you finish.

Every morning we have a choice -- forget our dreams or live them.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as the saying goes, stocks are for the long run.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

Analysts recommendations may not produce good results. In part this is due to the pressure placed on these analysts to recommend frequently rather than wisely.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

One must understand the importance of an endless drive to get information and seek value.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Go ahead, do something impossible.

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

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

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

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

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

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.