Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

456. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

462. “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

463. “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

464. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

467. “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

468. “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

469. “Habits are more powerful than fears.”

— Seth Godin

470. “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

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

— Seth Godin

472. “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

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

— Seth Godin

474. “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

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

— Seth Godin

476. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

479. “Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.”

— Seth Godin

480. “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

481. “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

482. “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

483. “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

484. “Competence is the enemy of change!”

— Seth Godin

485. “It’s war that makes generals.”

— Seth Godin

486. “Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.”

— Seth Godin

487. “It’s much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.”

— Seth Godin

488. “The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.”

— Seth Godin

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

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490. “Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.”

— Seth Godin

491. “Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.”

— Seth Godin

492. “Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.”

— Seth Godin

493. “There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.”

— Seth Godin

494. “Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.”

— Seth Godin

495. “The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.”

— Seth Godin

496. “When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it’s not, dream bigger.”

— Seth Godin

497. “Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.”

— Seth Godin

498. “People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.”

— Seth Godin

499. “The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.”

— Seth Godin

500. “What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you’re not, you’re wasting away.”

— Seth Godin