Seth Godin Quotes

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. It's been an interesting and happy ride since.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

I did not want to write just another business book.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

Build a company that changes the way things get done!

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.