Seth Godin Quotes

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his way down, hopefully. That's the kind of people I really enjoy working with. Playing safe isn't much fun. I like danger. It's controlled danger, always, and that's why I hope I don't lure too many good actors down into the pits with me, because I hope they maintain their own unique talents.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

I think it's important to take chances.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

There's a moment when you come to a certain point, and if you make the leap you get to the big leagues. But if you back away, you get stuck.

I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself.