Seth Godin Jobs Quotations

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do

The job is not the work.

Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass.

More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.

Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.