Seth Godin Generosity Quotations

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.