Seth Godin Quotes

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.

They regard as just whatever they believe to be advantageous.

He too, liked his party, and was fond of loyal men; but he had learned at last that all loyalty must be built on a basis of self-advantage. Patriotism may exist without it, but …loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

Men will always be powerfully influenced in their Opinions and Actions by what appears to be their particular Interest.

I'm not going to abandon the power game, but I'm going to be sure use it to my advantage.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them - not all of them, but many of them - understood they had only one chance to use me for their personal gain. And it's very easy to use me.

Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us.

We live in a digital world where all is available at the touch of a screen. Money has been simplified, changed subtly over time from tangible bills to numbers in cyberspace. Cash is no longer in a cloth bag; it's numbers on a screen. Numbers that can be manipulated and modified. If you run out of numbers, you can just buy some more, right?

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response.

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

Satan doesn't mind you using your strengths, so long as you do it for personal benefits.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.