Seth Godin Quotes

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

Seth Godin

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• I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Management
  • Short
  • Feet

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Management
  • Decisions

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation
  • Economic

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Fun
  • House
  • Energy

• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Year

• If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • God
  • Education
  • Technology

• Craft is part of the creative process.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Craft

• I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Process
  • Plan
  • Medicine

• If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Management
  • Objectives

• I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Creative

• Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Process

• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Management
  • Accountability

• My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course, as the years went on, I did more and more Web design and less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control.

  

  John Gruber
  • Work
  • Control
  • Design

• The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Family
  • Experience

• Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Never
  • Opportunities
  • Own

• Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

  

  Agnieszka Radwanska

• More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Process
  • Innovation
  • Management