Seth Godin

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement.

Seth Godin

A factory demands a compliant workforce in order to succeed. And so we’ve organized around this idea of compliance in all things – in school, in the foods we eat, in the way we respond to marketing. And it’s a dead end.

Seth Godin

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications.

Seth Godin

A graceful person gets things done, but does it in a way you’d be happy to have repeated.

Seth Godin

A great school experience won’t keep you from being remarkable, but it’s usually not sufficient to guarantee that you will become so. There’s something else at work here.

Seth Godin

A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Seth Godin

A movement is thrilling. It’s the work of many people, all connected, all seeking something better.

Seth Godin

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.

Seth Godin

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there’s the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

Seth Godin

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn’t at the heart of being human until very recently. We’ve been culturally brainwashed.

Seth Godin