Seth Godin Quotes

Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

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• I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Hope
  • Born
  • Legacy

• Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Day

• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Words
  • Movies
  • Other

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Doing

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Live
  • Vision
  • Young

• Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Book
  • Think

• I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Me
  • Smart

• People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Fight
  • Name

• In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Body

• Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • Day
  • Winning

• ’Oh, yes, he thinks a lot of you. I remember his very words. 'Mr Wooster, miss' he said 'is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible but he has a heart of gold’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • Words

• Here in a little lonely roomI am master of earth and sea,And the planets come to me.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Lonely

• And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Earth
  • Lost
  • Die

• The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • God

• I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Why

• That's not dirt. That's trampled down dog doo.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Dog
  • Dirt

• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Taste
  • Cultural
  • Zones

• It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. 'Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's 'Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' Then in the end, it's like 'Oh, sod off with the Beatles,' you know?

  

  George Harrison The Beatles
  • People
  • Annoyed

• Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Trust
  • Worry