Quotes from Seth Godin

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Human nature is to need a map. If you're brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at # camp

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

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.