Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
People get good gigs because they stand up…You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Confusion sets in when you're not sure if your product or service is bought or sold, or worse, if you are a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to),… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share
Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most… — Seth Godin Copy Share
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. — Seth Godin Copy Share
The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps… — Seth Godin Copy Share
I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third… — Seth Godin Copy Share
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies. — Seth Godin Copy Share
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… — Seth Godin Copy Share
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better… — Seth Godin Copy Share
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… — Seth Godin Copy Share
The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see. — Seth Godin Copy Share
If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're… — Seth Godin Copy Share
