Seth Godin Quotes

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

Seth Godin

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• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Courage
  • Found
  • Places

• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Motivational

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Yourself
  • Movies

• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Blessing
  • Modern
  • Greatest

• I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Like
  • Need
  • Dresses

• There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Everything
  • Now
  • Wrestling

• The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Real
  • Success
  • End

• My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Road
  • Supportive
  • Agent

• Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Work
  • Why
  • Fun

• I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Me

• To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Evil

• It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Important
  • Past

• At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

  

  Marco Polo
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Science
  • Space

• There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Money
  • Winning
  • Competition

• In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible in an economy which is as sparely regulated as possible, where freedom, competition and private ownership are key values.

  

  Donald Tusk
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Growth

• Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Competition
  • Categories
  • Permit