Seth Godin Quotes
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
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I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I really enjoy what I do. And if you want a lasting career, you have to work at it. Keep it current. Keep it fresh.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
