Seth Godin Quotes

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.

The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we will search the globe for ideas. We will share what we know with others to get what they know. We have a constant quest to raise the bar, and we get there by constantly talking to others.

It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

The best ideas start as conversations.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

You have a lot of ideas …. I want them so I can test them.

I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.