Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Play a new game, not the older game but faster.”

— Seth Godin

452. “You can’t win by being more average than average.”

— Seth Godin

453. “The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.”

— Seth Godin

454. “It’s rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can’t occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It’s difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.”

— Seth Godin

455. “If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.”

— Seth Godin

456. “The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.”

— Seth Godin

457. “Marketing begins before the product is launched.”

— Seth Godin

458. “Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.”

— Seth Godin

459. “If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today’s society is an instinct to produce.”

— Seth Godin

460. “Quit the wrong stuff. Stick with the right stuff. Have the guts to do one or the other.”

— Seth Godin

461. “The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.”

— Seth Godin

462. “It’s war that makes generals.”

— Seth Godin

463. “As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.”

— Seth Godin

464. “I’m not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I’m proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.”

— Seth Godin

465. “If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.”

— Seth Godin

466. “What people are afraid of isn’t failure. It’s blame. Criticism.”

— Seth Godin

467. “Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.”

— Seth Godin

468. “What if getting bigger isn’t the point? What if you merely got better?”

— Seth Godin

469. “Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.”

— Seth Godin

470. “Being charismatic doesn’t make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.”

— Seth Godin

471. “Competent people are the most resistant to change.”

— Seth Godin

472. “A book is a souvenir of an idea.”

— Seth Godin

473. “By all means, fire the customers who aren’t worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you’ve just started the firing process.”

— Seth Godin

474. “Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.”

— Seth Godin

475. “The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.”

— Seth Godin

476. “If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?”

— Seth Godin

477. “When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?”

— Seth Godin

478. “A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”

— Seth Godin

479. “If you don’t require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.”

— Seth Godin

480. “Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.”

— Seth Godin

481. “To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn’t have a constituency within otaku is almost impossible. There’s a hot sauce otaku, but there’s no mustard otaku.”

— Seth Godin

482. “Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.”

— Seth Godin

483. “The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.”

— Seth Godin

484. “The factory is a dead end and so is compliance. More obedience will not make us better. That’s why graceful is in such demand.”

— Seth Godin

485. “Kickstarter isn’t a profit center, it’s an organizer and an instigator.”

— Seth Godin

486. “Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.”

— Seth Godin

487. “Most people don’t see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That’s the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.”

— Seth Godin

488. “Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.”

— Seth Godin

489. “It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that’s the moment between you and remarkable.”

— Seth Godin

490. “Habits are more powerful than fears.”

— Seth Godin

491. “I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.”

— Seth Godin

492. “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.”

— Seth Godin

493. “Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.”

— Seth Godin

494. “But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.”

— Seth Godin

495. “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.”

— Seth Godin

496. “No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.”

— Seth Godin

497. “Competence is the enemy of change!”

— Seth Godin

498. “The relentless pursuit of mass will make you boring, because mass means average, it means the center of the curve, it requires you to offend no one and satisfy everyone.”

— Seth Godin

499. “When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.”

— Seth Godin

500. “I’ll confess that I don’t watch the Olympics, but you’d have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.”

— Seth Godin