Seth Godin
American author and marketer, born 1960
36 quotes.
Quotes by Seth Godin
- Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.
- Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
- Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
- Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
- Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
- Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
- Criticism comes to those who stand out.
- Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
- Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
- Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
- Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
- Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
- Freedom and responsibility aren’t given, they’re taken.
- If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
- If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.
- Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
- It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else's perfectly.
- It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
- Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
- Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.
- One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
- People don’t want what you make They want what it will do for them.
- Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
- Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
- Soon is not as good as now.
- The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
- The only choice we have is to begin. And the only place to begin is where we are. Simply begin. But begin.
- The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
- There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
- Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
- Trust is built when no one is looking.
- When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
- Writers write. Runners run. Establish your identity by doing your work.
- You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
- You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
- Your work is too important to be left to how you feel today.