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
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all… — 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
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
Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Direct marketers, of course, realize that measurement is the key to success. Figure out what works, and do it more! Mass marketers… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Successful heretics create their own religions....You can recognize the need for faith in your idea, you can find the tribe you need… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works. — Seth Godin 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 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
