Seth Godin Quotes

Just remember that those things that get attention flourish.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

There is always more information than attention

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

The more well-known you are, you become a target.

If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.

I have always been reasonably anonymous, but I suppose that has gone with the success of 'Homeland.' I feel a lot more visible, which is good and bad. Good because I am getting recognition, but I am slightly apprehensive because I always enjoyed my anonymity.

I am just enjoying the attention I am getting. It has been very overwhelming.

It's good to be in the news for whatever reason. I can't pretend that I am not enjoying the attention. Being popular is a good thing.

When I go places, I'm very much spotted, but I'm definitely ready for it and the opportunities it's going to bring.

The more publicity the better.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

How dismal is progress without publicity.

I can generate attention quickly.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.