Quotes from Seth Godin

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

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.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.

What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.