Seth Godin Quotes

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I don't like people telling me what to do.

If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.

All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

I have no power, no independence.

I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule, and also ruled I will not be!

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

… the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.

We have the power to turn against our creators.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.