Seth Godin Quotes

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

You have to take risks.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Even now, when people ask me, 'Why did you take the job at Uber?' I say because my gut told me to.

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Take more chances than you dare. You'll make more sales than you expect. That's the formula.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.

I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.