Seth Godin Quotes

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

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• I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • Thought
  • First

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Life
  • Country
  • Father

• There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Strength
  • Intelligence
  • Lot

• I'm a pro-horserace guy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Guy

• I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Myself
  • Always

• With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • American
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Know
  • Respect

• My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Art
  • Father
  • Child

• I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Work
  • Smile

• I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Great
  • Success
  • Like

• There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Success
  • Band
  • Rock

• Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Intelligent

• I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up

• If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Option