Quotes from Seth Godin

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that.

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.