Seth Godin Quotes

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.

I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.

Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

Whenever I go shopping with my wife, all I ever seem to come home with is a new pair of shoes.

We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

I love shopping! I look for new shopping portals. I keep buying a lot of stuff online. I don't follow any one person per se, but if I feel that the particular wear will look good on me, I pick it up without thinking.

I love shopping! It's my release sometimes.

I can walk all day in malls, shopping centres, high streets - I love it.

I shop everywhere. I love to shop online.Ebay is like heaven for me.

People internalise marketing.

I basically shop in my sleep!

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things. It's distressingly easy for those mechanisms to be triggered, either consciously by demagogues, or naively by people who think they're trying to do the right thing. Which is why I think it's more akin to tic-tac-toe.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.