Seth Godin

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

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

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.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

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

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

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

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.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.