Seth Godin Quotes

The only people who aren’t criticized are those who do nothing, and I would hate to see the agency [CIA] get in that state.

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

Not deciding is a decision. Let’s all remember that when we decide not to do something.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

As President I'll make mistakes because I'm going to do things ... and people who do things err.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.