Seth Godin Way Quotations

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.

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 I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money

Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.

The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.

Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.

Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.

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

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

The best way to be missed when you're gone, Is to stand for something when you're here

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.

The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.

The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.