Seth Godin Quotes

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.
Seth Godin

Happy, Game, Play

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
Seth Godin

Work, Time, Home

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.
Seth Godin

Show, Gone, Missed

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
Seth Godin

Simple, Wanted, Ideas

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.
Seth Godin

Find, Path, Problem

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

Fear, Smart, Successful

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
Seth Godin

Change, Politics, Money

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.
Seth Godin

Study, Leader, Leaders

Dig your well before you're thirsty.
Seth Godin

Before, Dig, Thirsty

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
Seth Godin

Hard, Stuff, Early

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.
Seth Godin

Money, Long, Book

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.
Seth Godin

Time, Future, Game

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
Seth Godin

Power, Live, Important

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
Seth Godin

Good, Book, Real

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
Seth Godin

Failure, Busy, Same

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.
Seth Godin

Away, Normal, Schools

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
Seth Godin

Idea, Public, Danger

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Seth Godin

Future, Knowledge, Readers

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
Seth Godin

Everyone, Interest, Internet

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.
Seth Godin

Business, Win, Ideas

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

Age, Person, Face

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.
Seth Godin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 10, 1960

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