Seth Godin Quotes

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Seth Godin

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• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

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• My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

  

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• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

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• I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

  

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• My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

  

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• In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Behinds
  • Heretic