Seth Godin Quotes

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

Seth Godin

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• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Business
  • Think
  • Know

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Game
  • Judgment
  • Excitement

• Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Men
  • May
  • Political

• I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Leadership
  • Lunch

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Responsibility
  • Writer
  • Critical

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Write

• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Road

• Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Turn

• This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Away
  • Clock

• I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Why
  • Always
  • Flower

• I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Drawing
  • Now
  • Sure

• Time flies whether you are having fun or not.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Flies

• I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Soul

• Amazon and Snap both have stories that are compelling for many investors: Amazon has transformed retailing and is destined to dominate it. Snap is reinventing communication, at least for millennials and those even younger.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • Communication

• Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have... almost a message for the rest of the world.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Men

• Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

  

  Seth Godin
  • Quality
  • Tomorrow
  • Excellence