Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Marketing is the name we use to describe the promise a company makes, the story it tells, the authentic way it delivers… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“just about every company forgot the lesson of the Cow. Instead of taking the money and using it to create a series… — 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
Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Do extremely difficult work. That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce because it's difficult, you're more likely… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you’ll… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them. — 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 Image
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 Image
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
