Seth Godin

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.