Seth Godin Quotes

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you.

The message that you're portraying, that's what drives the type of people that follow you.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.

I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

You put choice on the table, you change the whole game. Everything is about control. If an ad is interesting to you, you'll have the conversation with the brand. If it's not, it's a waste of time.

Power is nothing if you can't connect.

If you care about who I want to write about, I'll write about the people you want to read about.

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

There are various ways of delivering some kind of truth, so I try to find the style or the way that I find more effective.

You can't worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you're a likeable enough person that what you're saying will relate to other people, so they can laugh at it as well.

I try my best to try to respond to people, especially through Twitter.