Seth Godin Quotes

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT INVEST IN BUSINESS.. THEY INVEST IN BUSY-NESS (They Purchase A Job)

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

The problem with a job is that relying on others to give you a living is the biggest risk of all.