Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “You can’t win by being more average than average.”

— Seth Godin

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

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

— Seth Godin

454. “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.”

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

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

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

— Seth Godin

458. “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.”

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

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460. “Habits are more powerful than fears.”

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

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

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463. “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

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

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465. “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

466. “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

467. “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

468. “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

469. “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.”

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470. “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

471. “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

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

— Seth Godin

473. “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.”

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474. “Ideas don’t get smaller when they’re shared, they get bigger.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

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

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478. “Competence is the enemy of change!”

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

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

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

— Seth Godin

482. “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

483. “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.”

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

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

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486. “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.”

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487. “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.”

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488. “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.”

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

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

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491. “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.”

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492. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

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

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497. “And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread is not always about what the patent is like or what the factory is like, it’s about can you get your idea to spread or not?”

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498. “The problem with working with a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.”

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499. “Shame must be accepted to be effective.”

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500. “All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.”

— Seth Godin