Seth Godin Quotes

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

We need to listen to one another.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.

If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.

You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?

Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.