Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Content marketing is the only marketing left.”

— Seth Godin

52. “If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.”

— Seth Godin

53. “Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.”

— Seth Godin

54. “A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement.”

— Seth Godin

55. “The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.”

— Seth Godin

56. “The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.”

— Seth Godin

57. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.”

— Seth Godin

58. “Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.”

— Seth Godin

59. “The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.”

— Seth Godin

60. “Data is not useful until it becomes information.”

— Seth Godin

61. “You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.”

— Seth Godin

62. “Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.”

— Seth Godin

63. “Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.”

— Seth Godin

64. “Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.”

— Seth Godin

65. “Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.”

— Seth Godin

66. “The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.”

— Seth Godin

67. “Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.”

— Seth Godin

68. “Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.”

— Seth Godin

69. “In other words, If you don’t take action, you won’t get any results You are not your resume, you are your work.”

— Seth Godin

70. “I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.”

— Seth Godin

71. “People are not afraid of failure, they’re afraid of blame.”

— Seth Godin

72. “Why waste a sentence saying nothing?”

— Seth Godin

73. “If the game is designed for you to lose, don’t play that game. Play a different one.”

— Seth Godin

74. “If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work.”

— Seth Godin

75. “Anything worth achieving in life has a dip.”

— Seth Godin

76. “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”

— Seth Godin

77. “An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.”

— Seth Godin

78. “If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you’ve just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.”

— Seth Godin

79. “Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.”

— Seth Godin

80. “Plans are great, but missions are better.”

— Seth Godin

81. “Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.”

— Seth Godin

82. “Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.”

— Seth Godin

83. “People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.”

— Seth Godin

84. “It’s never too late to start heading in the right direction.”

— Seth Godin

85. “Choose your customers, choose your future.”

— Seth Godin

86. “If failure isn’t an option, then success isn’t either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.”

— Seth Godin

87. “Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it’s new, because it’s human and because it seeks to connect.”

— Seth Godin

88. “Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.”

— Seth Godin

89. “Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they’d like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn’t do enough to advance the cause is waste.”

— Seth Godin

90. “By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon.”

— Seth Godin

91. “Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.”

— Seth Godin

92. “Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.”

— Seth Godin

93. “It’s human nature to quit when it hurts. But it’s that reflex that creates scarcity.”

— Seth Godin

94. “Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.”

— Seth Godin

95. “The easier it is to quantify, the less it’s worth.”

— Seth Godin

96. “If you hear my idea but don’t believe it, that’s not your fault; it’s mine. If you see my new product but don’t buy it, that’s my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you’re bored, that’s my fault too.”

— Seth Godin

97. “Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.”

— Seth Godin

98. “Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.”

— Seth Godin

99. “Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

— Seth Godin

100. “If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.”

— Seth Godin