Seth Godin Quotes

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

Change before you're forced to change.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

It's difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you're used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.

Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products.

In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.