Seth Godin Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

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  Beautiful, Brave, Culture

• If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

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  Appreciation, Culture, Employee Engagement

• No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

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  Organization, Ideas, People

  Seth Godin (2004). “Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow”, p.52, Penguin

• This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

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  Innovation, Age, Culture

• Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

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  Business, Book, Hands

• The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

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  School, Government, Boss

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.6, Penguin

• Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

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  Culture, Pessimistic, Thanks

• In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Passion, Ideas

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