Seth Godin Quotes

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

Seth Godin

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• The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Power
  • Success
  • Quality

• Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Tears
  • Market
  • Liquidation

• I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Powerful
  • Wonderful

• Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Different
  • Girl

• I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • Movie
  • English
  • Manhattan

• I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn’t know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same.

  

  Adi Shankar
  • Relationship
  • Dreams
  • Hard Work

• For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Different
  • Problem
  • Leadership

• Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give...

  

  Han Nolan
  • Life
  • Survival

• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Mistake

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people who I photograph, I just go, along, banging away. So I don't really have a relationship with them. A lot of people think it's very important. I don't. It's like love at first sight. I have an impression when I see somebody, and I have an idea of who they are, or what they are.

  

  William Klein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Natural
  • Excitement
  • Vehicle

• The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Uranium
  • Reactor
  • Fissile

• Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Commodity
  • Competence