Seth Godin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, Art, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

• Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Winning, Opportunity

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.35, Penguin

• We fail when we give up too soon.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Giving, Failing

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.71, Penguin

• Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

  Seth Godin

  Giving, Leader, Looks

• The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.

  Seth Godin

  Fun, Successful, Giving

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future”, p.140, Hachette UK

• Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Opportunity, People

• Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Business, Ideas

• Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

  Seth Godin

  Real, Believe, Ideas

• ...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Art, Business

• believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Believe, Realistic

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

• The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Money, Way, Causes

  "Thinking about money" by Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com. June 30, 2013.

• I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Giving, Found

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Information Solutions Interview, www.experian.com.

• In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.

  Seth Godin

  Giving, Cost, Benefits

• Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Believe, Being Real

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

• Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

  Seth Godin

  People, Giving, Expectations

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

• Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty.
  People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it.
  Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Hands

  "Living with doubt". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 5, 2010.

• Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Sports, Smart

• Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Passion, Caring

• Insulate yourself...
  from anonymous angry people
  Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand
  Precisely measure the results that are important to you
  Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter
  Fail often
  Ship
  Lead, don't manage so much
  Seek out uncomfortable situations
  Make an impact on the people who matter to you
  Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
  Copyedit less, invent more
  Give more speeches
  Ignore unsolicited advice

  Seth Godin

  Art, Impact, Skills

• Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

  Seth Godin

  Art, People, Giving

• Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.

  Seth Godin

  True Friend, Feel Better, Giving

• Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

  Seth Godin

  Giving, Leader, Productive

• Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.

  Seth Godin

  Workout, Giving, Work Out

• It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

  Seth Godin

  Hands, Giving, Safe

• School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only
  dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish
  them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because
  they worked hard enough to reach them.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, School, Giving

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