55 quotes
"When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate."
- Seth Godin
Awareness
"I don't know about you, but I judge books by their cover every day."
- Seth Godin
Awareness
"The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about."
- Seth Godin
Awareness
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from."
- Seth Godin
Balance
"You are not your resume, you are your work."
- Seth Godin
Self-awareness
"“You are not your resume, you are your work.”"
- Seth Godin
Self-awareness
""You are not your resume, you are your work.""
- Seth Godin
Self-awareness
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."
- Seth Godin
Happiness
"People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic."
- Seth Godin
Relationships
"The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something."
- Seth Godin
Courage
""If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?""
- Seth Godin
Inspiration
"How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
- Seth Godin
Motivation
"You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment."
- Seth Godin
Motivation
"The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins."
- Seth Godin
Motivation
"You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment."
- Seth Godin
Motivation
"It’s always the hard part that creates value."
- Seth Godin
Hard Work
"It's always the hard part that creates value."
- Seth Godin
Hard Work
"People like us do things like this."
- Seth Godin
Teamwork
"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
- Seth Godin
Leadership
""Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then… do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.""
- Seth Godin
Leadership
"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow."
- Seth Godin
Leadership
"Leadership is about giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
- Seth Godin
Leadership
"When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter."
- Seth Godin
Growth
"The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something."
- Seth Godin
Aspirations
"You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself."
- Seth Godin
Empowerment
"You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make a choice."
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules."
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion."
- Seth Godin
Ambition
""Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion.""
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average."
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"Doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve been getting."
- Seth Godin
Change
"Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late."
- Seth Godin
Change
""Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.""
- Seth Godin
Change
"Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late."
- Seth Godin
Change
"The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something."
- Seth Godin
Failure
"Failure is simply feedback. We need to learn from it and change."
- Seth Godin
Learning from Mistakes
"The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact… those people have goals."
- Seth Godin
Goals
"Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific."
- Seth Godin
Focus
"Only a fool does something new and thinks it will work for sure. Only a failure refuses to try something that might not work."
- Seth Godin
Taking Risks
"Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you’ve got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don’t start, you never get a chance."
- Seth Godin
Taking Risks
"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."
- Seth Godin
Taking Risks
"Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is."
- Seth Godin
New Beginnings
"Sooner or later your work speaks for itself. Outlasting critics feel like it will take a very long time, but you’re more patient than they are."
- Seth Godin
Perseverance
"Anxiety is just repeatedly experiencing failure in advance."
- Seth Godin
Mindfulness
"Don’t try to be the ‘next.’ Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new."
- Seth Godin
Originality
"The organizations that succeed realize that offering a remarkable product with a great story is more important and more profitable than doing what everyone else is doing just a bit better."
- Seth Godin
Originality
"Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers."
- Seth Godin
Adaptation
""Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.""
- Seth Godin
Adaptation
"Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it."
- Seth Godin
Facing Fears
"Make it simple; complexity doesn't mean better."
- Seth Godin
Simplicity
"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers."
- Seth Godin
Empathy
"If you measure it, it will improve."
- Seth Godin
Efficiency
"There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them."
- Seth Godin
Drive
"There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them."
- Seth Godin
Drive