Explore Quotes by Seth Godin

Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.

I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that.

The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before.

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.

Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more