Seth Godin Quotes

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

Seth Godin

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Money
  • Job
  • Competition

• Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Never
  • Bubble

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Team

• I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Couple
  • Successful
  • First

• Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Money
  • Art
  • Filmmaking

• I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Time
  • Family
  • Happy

• Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Money
  • Way
  • Living

• We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Business
  • Tree

• People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Taken

• What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Driving
  • Grow

• I smoke as much as I want and chew tobacco a good deal of the time. I don't pay any attention to the rules for keeping in physical condition. I think they are a lot of bunk. The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• Bob Hope: finding some coins tied with string in Jack's trousers When you ask this kid for a loan, and he says his money is tied up, he isn't kidding. This is an obstacle course for pickpockets.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Up
  • Money
  • Hope

• Balzac was right…. There is tremendous jealousy about money.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Money
  • Jealousy

• Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Simple
  • Gold

• While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Attention
  • Single

• Never go for the money. You have to match the job and your values so you can bring your whole self.

  

  Aylwin B. Lewis
  • Money
  • Job
  • Values

• I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

  

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Trying

• My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

  

  K. Flay
  • Serious
  • Died
  • Inheritance

• At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Living