The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice. — Seth Godin Habit Copy Share Image
“An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.” — Seth Godin Art Copy Share Image
Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want — Seth Godin Competition Copy Share Image
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes. — Seth Godin Advertising Copy Share Image
The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell… — Seth Godin Change Copy Share Image
Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead. — Seth Godin Generous Copy Share Image
Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing. — Seth Godin Care Copy Share Image
“If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that's all we're going to get. School can and must… — Seth Godin Education Copy Share Image
“Quitting is better than coping because quitting frees you up to excel at something else. “Never” — Seth Godin Coping Copy Share Image
I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right. — Seth Godin Creativity Copy Share Image
“I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate… — Seth Godin Anxiety 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 Consumers Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Acts of courage Copy Share Image
“Quitting the projects that don’t go anywhere is essential if you want to stick out the right ones. You don’t have the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way… — Seth Godin Chance Copy Share Image
You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
“Today, working hard is about taking apparent risk. Not a crazy risk like betting the entire company on an untested product. No,… — Seth Godin Easy way Copy Share Image
The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the… — 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 Business marketing Copy Share Image
“Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is… — Seth Godin Art Copy Share Image
“When Pat Holt strings together a list of words not to overuse—“Actually, totally, absolutely, completely, continually, constantly, continuously, literally, really, unfortunately, ironically,… — Seth Godin Language 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… — Seth Godin Brilliant 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