Seth Godin Quotes

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Seth Godin

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• If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Character
  • American

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Drama
  • Involved
  • Escape

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Education
  • Religious
  • Special

• To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Black
  • Individual
  • White

• Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • Think

• People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Love
  • Truth

• For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Long
  • Identity
  • Immigration

• Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Friendship
  • Most
  • Liking

• The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • America
  • Food
  • Responsibility

• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Knew
  • Having
  • Normalcy

• In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Small
  • Space
  • Simple

• After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • Philosophy
  • First
  • Exams

• I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Love
  • Science

• I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Like
  • Rather
  • Cardio

• Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Plant
  • British

• Donald Trump ran for office complaining that at $19 trillion, the US debt was completely out of control, and yet what he's planning to do is throw trillions of dollars more onto that debt. If the proposed tax plan cuts upon the wealthiest Americans is enacted, 10 years from now America's debt will be over $30 trillion. And so, he's contradicting, his own stated positions. And that's because, to Donald, none of this is about policy. It's not about sound economics. It's about greed and the glorification of the great leader.

  

  David Cay Johnston
  • Leader
  • Cutting
  • Planning

• The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Perspective
  • Challenges
  • Leader

• I believe in numbers and signs.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Numbers

• My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • World
  • Relationship

• Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Leader
  • Employee
  • Managers