Seth Godin Quotes

You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door.

All of us have an entrepreneur in us.

There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.

It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.

The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It's about what we do.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions can make a difference - is a big part of confidence.