Linchpin Quotes

#1. 1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.

Seth Godin

#2. Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.

Julianne Davidow

#3. The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

Vladimir Putin

#4. When your organization becomes more human, more remarkable, faster on its feet, and more likely to connect directly with customers, it becomes indispensable. The very thing that made your employee a linchpin makes YOU a linchpin.

Seth Godin

#5. The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Seth Godin

#6. If you create a system that makes the small donors the linchpin of the system in terms of how members of Congress directly raise the funds for their campaigns, then it gives everyday citizens much more of a role - a leveraging role - in the funding of those campaigns.

John Sarbanes

#7. Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

Winston Churchill

#8. Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.

Joe Biden

#9. Becoming a linchpin is not an act of selfishness. I see it as an act of generosity,

Seth Godin

#10. While trying to frame someone, one needs to bear in mind if the intended target is even capable of carrying out such an operation, so as to make the world believe they actually did it.

- The Linchpin, Pg. 19

Neeraj Ashok

#11. The linchpin feels the fear, acknowledges it, then proceeds. I can't tell you how to do this; I think the answer is different for everyone. What I can tell you is that in today's economy, doing it is a prerequisite for success.

Seth Godin

#12. The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

Seth

#13. Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

Seth Godin

#14. In the linchpin economy, the winners are once again the artists who give gifts. Giving a gift makes you indispensable. Inventing a gift, creating art - that is what the market seeks out, and the givers are the ones who earn our respect and attention.

Seth Godin

#15. As a chef, I could not wash my hands - nor clean pots, pans, utensils, meats or produce, nor make soups and sauces - if I did not have clean water. Were this to happen, of course, these would be the least of my concerns. Because water is the linchpin of survival: without it, not much else matters.

Marcus Samuelsson

#16. The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they believe they are safe, in the dark. Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Glenn Greenwald

#17. It's becoming clear that people who reject the worst of the current system are actually more likely to succeed. -Seth Godin, Linchpin

Sophia Amoruso

#18. The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

Carl Sagan

#19. Marriage is a linchpin in many women's lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

Geraldine Stutz

#20. One thing you will learn with experience of dealing with politicians, is never to be surprised at anything.

- The Linchpin, Pg. 72

Neeraj Ashok

#21. Then let not what I cannot have
My cheer of mind destroy.
Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,
Although a poor blind boy!

Colley Cibber

#22. I missed you, Lazarus. More than I missed the sunlight, even.

Erika Johansen

#23. Because the mankind very himself is a torturer, he created the concept of hell!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. I would much rather be perceived as being great at a few things than be a failure at many.

Scott Hildreth

#25. This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that?

Seth Godin

#26. Arrogance cometh before reality.

Wes Fesler

#27. Man loves pleasure. But women desire purposeful commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Seth Godin

#29. Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

Iyanla Vanzant

#30. Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

Alan Kay

#31. The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Mark Twain

#32. Read, whilst you arm you; arm you, whilst you read.

Torquato Tasso

#33. The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

Seth Godin

#34. For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better

Seth Godin

#35. When you sulk, you create ice; when you smile, you create fire!

Mehmet Murat Ildan