When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies"… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
That's why there's lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it's hard… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally… — 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
