Seth Godin Quotes

The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

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• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Doing
  • Problems

• China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Power
  • Energy

• In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Job
  • Myself

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • World
  • Know

• All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • Washington
  • Mecca

• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • History
  • Events

• I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Important
  • Business
  • Hold

• I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents

• The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Brain
  • Map

• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Picture
  • Museum

• As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • World
  • Live
  • Future

• When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn't a gum wrapper anyplace.

  

  Jason Kilar
  • World
  • Attention
  • Disney

• It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Football

• On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Small
  • Single
  • Stock

• The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Important