Seth Godin Quotes

Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

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• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Weird

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • World
  • Nature
  • You

• A book is either autobiography or a novel.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Book
  • Autobiography
  • Either

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

  

  Eric Butterworth
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Poverty

• Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Sexy

• My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Real
  • Money
  • Job

• About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Good

• In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Men
  • Lost
  • Popular

• A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.

  

  Aml Ameen
  • Work
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Good
  • Music

• The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

  

  James Stephens
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!

  

  Edward I of England
  • Defeat

• The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Up

• We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

  

  Babatunde Osotimehin
  • Women
  • Health
  • Profound

• Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Choices
  • Best Way
  • Mostly