Seth Godin Books Quotes & Sayings

It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it ... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more. — Seth Godin

A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks. — Francine Rivers

Multiply that scenario by one hundred or one thousand books a year. Using permission, Amazon can fundamentally reconfigure the entire book industry, disintermediating and combining every step of the chain until there are only two: the writer and Amazon. — Seth Godin

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out. — Robert Frost

I'm here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of gum. — Stephen Hawking

Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us ... a very few of us ... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I ... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked. — M.J. Rose

I am a mom as well as a senator! — Patty Murray

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. — Seth Godin

It's not an accident that successful people read more books. — Seth Godin

I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it. — Jamie Sives

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It's not an accident that successful people read more books. Symptoms — Seth Godin

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet. — Afrika Bambaataa

Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out. — Rosser Reeves

All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas. — Seth Godin

And the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the moon, in through the clefts in the curtains, is much like my spirit trying to escape the burn of yesterday's presence. — Kellie Elmore

And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California. — Mike Curb

That was opportunity knocking. Rising — Kevin Hearne

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. — Pat Conroy

My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need. — Tim Tebow

My loss of faith is sudden, and it's not so much a conversion as a reappraisal. Children are still modeling the world, still understanding how it works; their convictions are malleable, like their bones. Thus, I experience no sudden horrible wrench as my belief is uprooted, but rather a feeling like the right pair of glasses being put in front of my face after some time wearing someone else's. — Nick Harkaway

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture ... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design" ... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it. — Seth Godin

America is the greatest sin against God. — Michael Pfleger

Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony. The Black Company pg 447 — Glen Cook

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward. — Seth Godin