Seth Godin Quotes

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.