But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after… — 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
If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor? — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition. — 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
