Quotes from Seth Godin

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

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

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.

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

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

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

If you can't state your position in eight words, you don't have a position.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Soon is not as good as now.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starting."   Siddhrtha Gautama

In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.