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
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
Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work. — 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
Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change… — 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
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite. — 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
