Seth Godin Quotes

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Stick to your true north - build greatness for the long term.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?

One of the things that I've found in everything that I've done: People want leaders to create a sense of direction and to lead and to act.

How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince a player of the way you want to play if you don't have clarity yourself over why you want to do it?

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Leaders determine the level of an organization.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

If you don't have a vision, you can never be focused in a direction.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.