Seth Godin Quotes

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

Innovation means change.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.