Seth Godin Quotes

Competence is no longer scarce.

When you have to make a choice between capacity and capability, I would go with capability.

I think we have a lot of tools, a lot of skills to do certain things.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

You can never have enough talent.

Talent is more important than nice body parts.

I know what I can bring to the table wherever it is.

I will try to showcase what I have to offer.

I have always admired Zab's skills, and his resume speaks for itself.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.

Competence was attractive.

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

Experience trumps brilliance.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.