Seth Godin Successful Quotations

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.

I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.