Seth Godin Quotes

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.

I don't think I've worked with anyone where I haven't seen some progress. Now sometimes you can't take someone where they want to go, not all the way, and sometimes you stop, and they do it or don't do it on their own thereafter.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.

I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

I honestly believe that if you're not growing, then you are taking the space that somebody else would get if you moved forward.

If I could just get better a little bit each year, then I did my job.

It's core to Amazon's culture that we want to innovate and think big, and it's great to be at a place like that.

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That's where you can get real change.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.