Seth Godin Quotes

If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.

Seth Godin

• Needs
• Stupid
• Hands
• Pay
• Debt
• Bills

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• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

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• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

  

  Sam Wyly
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• I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.

  

  Fleur East
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• I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
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• I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Mind
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• We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Live
  • Pride

• Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.

  

  Alphonse Allais

• I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

  

  Christopher Lasch
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• I'm honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.

  

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• Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.

  

  Paul Walker
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• Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

  

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• I've always had this theory that if you're good at something, you should do it.

  

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• People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

  

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• As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Up
  • Remember
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• My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Stupid
  • Ditzy

• If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Needs
  • Stupid
  • Hands