Quotes from Seth Godin

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

The enemy of fear is creativity.

Listen to your fear but don't obey it.

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

If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

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

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

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.

The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.