Seth Godin People Quotations [Page 2]

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

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

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.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.