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Seth Godin Quotes about Giving

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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

Opportunity, Giving, Waiting

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.

Giving, Leader, Looks

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

People, Giving, Want

We fail when we give up too soon.

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

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.

Fun, Successful, Giving

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

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.

True Friend, Feel Better, Giving

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

Giving, Cost, Benefits

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

Opportunity, People, Giving

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

Giving, Leader, Productive

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.

People, Giving, Foolish

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.

Art, People, Giving

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.

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.

Dream, School, Giving

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.

Workout, Giving, Work Out

So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.

Media, Giving, People

"What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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

Thinking, Giving, Found

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

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.

People, Giving, Expectations

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

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