Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices. — Seth Godin Chance Copy Share Image
Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you… — Seth Godin Customer Copy Share Image
In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable. — Seth Godin Happiness Copy Share Image
Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing . But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you… — Seth Godin Amazing Copy Share Image
Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers. — Seth Godin Donors Copy Share Image
Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine. — Seth Godin Atm Copy Share Image
“People have been indoctrinated so completely by their jobs that they don’t want to know how something works, they’re willing to accept… — Seth Godin Indoctrinated Copy Share Image
“The time to look for a new job is when you don’t need one. The time to switch jobs is before it… — Seth Godin Career 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 Action Copy Share Image
“Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you… — Seth Godin Consumer Copy Share Image
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow. — 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 Bird 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
“If all online products at all online stores are the same, then of course I’ll use a price-shopping Web site to find… — Seth Godin Shopping Copy Share Image
“For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself. — Seth Godin Care Copy Share Image
Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it?… — Seth Godin Comfort Copy Share Image
The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave. — Seth Godin Brave Copy Share Image
If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that? — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn. — Seth Godin Art Copy Share Image
Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find… — Seth Godin Code Copy Share Image
Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. — Seth Godin Business Copy Share Image
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their… — Seth Godin Bloggers Copy Share Image
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care… — Seth Godin Care 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
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do… — Seth Godin Art Copy Share Image
“If you're brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you're being too generous about your definition of brilliant.” — Seth Godin Generous Copy Share Image
Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. — Seth Godin Ability Copy Share Image
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image