Seth Godin Quotes

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

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

Power is nothing if you can't connect.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

It is very touching that you are able to create some kind of impact through a character.

When I choose what I do, I ask, 'Does it make a difference?'

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact.

I hope that my work makes a difference because I think that's why I do it.

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

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

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