Seth Godin Quotes

That's your opportunity-to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.

Soon is not as good as now.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

When access to information was limited, we needed to load student sup with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

It’s all a risk. Always. That’s not true, actually. The only exception: it’s a certainty that there’s risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That’s because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking.
It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day
to deliver your message with authority.
You should write one.
Seth Godin