Seth Godin Quotes

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

Teams always have natural leaders on the pitch and natural leaders in footballing terms.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college. I did it when I carried my papers. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them, I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. Before long, I probably knew more students than anybody in the university, and they recognized me and considered me their friend.

All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

Anyone who influences others is a leader.

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.

There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.