Seth Godin

Great leaders don’t try to please everyone. Great leaders don’t water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

Seth Godin

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

Seth Godin

Great work is always shunned at first.

Seth Godin

Here’s conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Seth Godin

Here’s the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Seth Godin

How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.

Seth Godin

How was your day? If your answer was ‘fine,’ then I don’t think you were leading.

Seth Godin

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

Seth Godin

I define a factory as an organization that has figured it out, a place where people go to do what they’re told and earn a paycheck.

Seth Godin

I don’t like offending people, and it’s easy to offend people when you don’t know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

Seth Godin