Seth Godin Quotes

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.

In an organization that is unwilling to change, find the opportunity to talk and interact with people - figure out why they don't want to change. It could be habits. It could be people's personal equities and reputations are defined by the role they're in or the process they've mastered.

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

There are people and interests that do not want change. It is not in their interest for this system to change.

The status quo is a powerful force.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering preferring a certain present to an uncertain future/

When push comes to shove, the status quo is a very powerful force.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.