Seth Godin Quotes

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right.

I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

I think people are having less of an investment in relationships. It used to be that you meet someone, you go on four or five dates and you gradually get to know them and trust them at the same time, and you learn a little bit about them. Now, it could be one date - maybe even before that first date - you go on Facebook have all the information.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

The reason you have to say "Trust me" is that you haven't earned it and are forced to ask for it - BAD MOVE.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

I feel like you have to earn something with an audience. If I just did it now, I think producers on any superhero movie, I think they wouldn't trust me to do it the way I'd want to do it, because I'd want to do something basically really strange. I think you have to earn that freedom to do stuff like that. So I think, if I keep kind of chipping away, trying to do good movies and interesting, strange movies then people will eventually trust you to do that on a bigger scale.

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.

Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

You cannot buy trust at any price. But slowly, over time, you can build it for free.

Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.