Seth Godin Quotes

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

Seth Godin

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• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • America
  • Think

• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Business
  • Best
  • Value

• Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Place

• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Business

• I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lucky

• It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business
  • Interest
  • Seriously

• As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Work
  • Country
  • Business

• When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Money
  • Business
  • Me

• In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Day
  • Colleagues

• By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • Model
  • New

• I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

  

  Verite
  • Business
  • Creative
  • Pay

• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Business
  • Small
  • Simple

• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Simple
  • Reward

• And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Chinese
  • Coffee
  • Library

• It just comes kind of naturally to me to take something and try and make it relatable and interesting to someone who doesn't know everything about skating.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Interesting

• Every job, once you get there and start doing it, you approach it the same way. And it does become a serious thing, because it's not easy to do, even something silly. You still have to be professional and perform.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Serious
  • Easy

• The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Business
  • Sleep
  • Making Money