There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution. — Seth Godin Execution Copy Share Image
Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep. — Seth Godin Business Copy Share Image
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you. — Seth Godin Generous Copy Share Image
Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's… — 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
“Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.” — Seth Godin Leader Copy Share Image
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change. — Seth Godin Employee 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 Good questions Copy Share Image
“The book didn’t generate anything. All it did was give people a chance to express the biases they had before they even… — Seth Godin Book Copy Share Image
The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives… — Seth Godin Fun Copy Share Image
Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission;… — Seth Godin Giving 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
Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to… — Seth Godin Attention Copy Share Image
“A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to… — Seth Godin Fundamentalism Copy Share Image
And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one… — Seth Godin Bread Copy Share Image
“They told you to get your résumé in order, to punch your ticket, to fit in, and to follow instructions. They told… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“What most people want in a leader is something that's very difficult to find: we want someone who listens...The secret, Reagan's secret,… — Seth Godin Leader Copy Share Image
“When those in power use shame to bully the weak into compliance, they are stealing from us. They tell us that they… — Seth Godin Failure Copy Share Image
Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“As it becomes easier to monitor informal consumer networks, the winners will be companies that figure out what’s working fastest – and… — Seth Godin Clothing line Copy Share Image
I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it… — Seth Godin Ability Copy Share Image
“--Gardens, not buildings-- Great projects start out feeling like buildings. There are architects, materials, staff, rigid timelines, permits, engineers, a structure. It… — Seth Godin Architecture Copy Share Image
“out that expending emotional labor, working without a map, and driving in the dark involve confronting fear and living with the pain… — Seth Godin Art Copy Share Image