Seth Godin Quotes

I'm blowin' all the bullies away.

I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.

I don't take criticism lying down.

The way you deal with bullies is you change their economic equation. Make it more expensive for them to hassle you.

I'm not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully's gang, and then now I want to join their gang. That's just not me. I wanna fight - let's go! I mean, I'm gonna stand up for myself. That's just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up in.

I know how to stand up to a bully - but maybe more importantly how to work around a bully.

If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.

When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

Dealing with bullies when I was in sixth and seventh grade has made me a better football player, believe it or not. You have to come to a point when you're like, 'I've had enough, and I'm not going to be kicked around and pushed around anymore.'

Never be bullied into silence.

If you have a problem with someone you have to go after them, and it's not necessarily to teach that person a lesson, it's to teach all the people that are watching a lesson that you don't take crap, and if you do take crap, you're just not going to well

You can't let people take advantage of you. Go get that ass.

Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you're giving yourself a chance.

You know, you can only get beat up so much. And then you turn it around, and you're like, OK, we're not taking this anymore.

I neither throw my weight around nor do I bully anyone on the set.

I do not want to be in fights where people see me as an obstacle on the road. I want to be the man challenging.

I was a quiet kid on the streets. The loudmouths would push me around but when I was boxing, I was beating them up and it felt good.

I've learnt that over the years, sometimes I was caring so much about how other people felt, I wasn't standing up for myself and I wasn't caring about how I felt even when people were straight up bullying me online.

It's important for me to be aggressive and not defer.

You have to have your own back.

If you don't fight you don't give yourself a chance.

It's easy to say standup for yourself. The problem is if you don't feel like you're physically capable of handling the repercussions of that, especially at a young age, it's hard to do that.

I suddenly thought, if I was going to make a go of it, I was going to have to look after myself and not keep apologising for knocking people over. That transformed my career.

A bully is a bully, and it's important that you stand up to them.

A bully is going to be a bully, and you have to stand up for yourself. You can't expect everyone else is going to come and run to your aid. You have to stand your ground; that's very important.