Seth Godin

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.

Seth Godin

The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can’t tell me the change and you can’t tell me the someone, then you’re wasting your time.

Seth Godin

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

Seth Godin

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It’s in being missed when you’re gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

Seth Godin

The problem doesn’t lie with the great teachers. Great teachers strive to create linchpins. The problem lies with the system that punishes artists and rewards bureaucrats instead.

Seth Godin

The problem is that most schools don’t like great teachers. They’re organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average.

Seth Godin

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you’re now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

Seth Godin

The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

Seth Godin

The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

Seth Godin

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Seth Godin