Seth Godin Linchpin Quotes & Sayings

But nobody listens to artists any more. Paint cannot stop progress, only color it. — Michael Walterich

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart. — Vincent Van Gogh

One touch from you ... ," water coated his lips, gathered in thick drops on his dark lashes, "makes me feel more than a whole goddamned orgy. — Aleksandr Voinov

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music. — Angel Olsen

This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that? — Seth Godin

1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort. — Seth Godin

Becoming a linchpin is not an act of selfishness. I see it as an act of generosity, — Seth Godin

God cannot save them from fools. — John Muir

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability. — Seth Godin

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents. — Alain De Botton

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important. — Seth Godin

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della — Abbi Glines

Let the stillness be, High Lord. Do not disturb it. If you are able, listen to its voice - but let it be. — Terry Brooks

You can give your message to anybody, to everybody, from anywhere, from everywhere, in every way possible. The only thing you have to consider is this: Let your message be simple and understandable! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The alternative to tourism The linchpin, the engaged one, the graceful actor in an unfolding play - these people don't seek to only inspect. They're not traveling in order to tick a checkbox. Instead, they open themselves to the world they bought a ticket to, knowing full well that they will be changed. — Seth Godin

The linchpin feels the fear, acknowledges it, then proceeds. I can't tell you how to do this; I think the answer is different for everyone. What I can tell you is that in today's economy, doing it is a prerequisite for success. — Seth Godin

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better — Seth Godin

In the linchpin economy, the winners are once again the artists who give gifts. Giving a gift makes you indispensable. Inventing a gift, creating art - that is what the market seeks out, and the givers are the ones who earn our respect and attention. — Seth Godin

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.
Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.
The job is not the work. — Seth Godin

We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care. We need marketers who can lead, salespeople able to risk making a human connection, passionate change makers willing to be shunned if it is necessary for them to make a point. Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference. Some organizations haven't realized this yet, or haven't articulated it, but we need artists. — Seth Godin

When your organization becomes more human, more remarkable, faster on its feet, and more likely to connect directly with customers, it becomes indispensable. The very thing that made your employee a linchpin makes YOU a linchpin. — Seth Godin

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin. — Seth Godin

What if there were no longer only two sides? Not just capital versus labor, but a third team, one that straddled elements of both? I think there's a huge opportunity for a third kind of participant, a linchpin, and now there is an opportunity to change all the rules that we've lived with all our lives. There is a shortage of this third kind of worker, and that shortage means that the market needs you desperately. The con game is ending, at least for people passionate enough to do something about it. — Seth Godin

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. — Seth Godin

This is like the Six Sigma approach to quality. Six Sigma refers to the quest for continuous improvement, ultimately leading to 3.4 defects per million units. The problem is that once you're heading down this road, there's no room left for amazing improvements and remarkable innovations. Either you rolled ten strikes or you didn't. Organizations that earn dramatic success always do it in markets where asymptotes don't exist, or where they can be shattered. If you could figure out how to bowl 320, that would be amazing. Until that happens, pick a different sport if you want to be a linchpin. — Seth Godin

It's becoming clear that people who reject the worst of the current system are actually more likely to succeed. -Seth Godin, Linchpin — Sophia Amoruso

In a lot of ways, Mom is kind of badass. — Sarah Bird