Seth Godin Linchpin Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Fear will teach you where to be careful.

Malinda Lo

#3. You probably don't have much of a choice.

Charles Petzold

#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. but with their enemies either dead, jailed, or in a perpetual state of being frozen, danger had decided to leave them alone.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#6. What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

Bertrand Russell

#7. 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

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

Seth Godin

#9. I'm saving my sick days for when I'm feeling better.

Salma Hayek

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

Seth Godin

#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. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Seth Godin

#17. Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

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

Seth Godin