Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Measurement is fabulous. Unless you’re busy measuring what’s easy to measure as opposed to what’s important.”

— Seth Godin

102. “You can’t shrink your way to greatness!”

— Seth Godin

103. “Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.”

— Seth Godin

104. “Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.”

— Seth Godin

105. “Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.”

— Seth Godin

106. “We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.”

— Seth Godin

107. “What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.”

— Seth Godin

108. “You don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you get to make every day.”

— Seth Godin

109. “Whining isn’t a scalable solution.”

— Seth Godin

110. “Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.”

— Seth Godin

111. “How was your day? If your answer was “fine,” then I don’t think you were leading.”

— Seth Godin

112. “Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.”

— Seth Godin

113. “Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.”

— Seth Godin

114. “You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.”

— Seth Godin

115. “Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.”

— Seth Godin

116. “The person who fails the most wins.”

— Seth Godin

117. “Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”

— Seth Godin

118. “Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.”

— Seth Godin

119. “Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It’s fear about fear, fear that means nothing.”

— Seth Godin

120. “Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.”

— Seth Godin

121. “Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We’re proud of you for having them. But it’s possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that’s really frightening you – the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.”

— Seth Godin

122. “Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

— Seth Godin

123. “If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.”

— Seth Godin

124. “Selling is about a transference of emotion, not a presentation of facts.”

— Seth Godin

125. “People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.”

— Seth Godin

126. “Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it’s not a gift.”

— Seth Godin

127. “Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.”

— Seth Godin

128. “It’s not an accident that successful people read more books.”

— Seth Godin

129. “Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn’t mean mattered.”

— Seth Godin

130. “If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!”

— Seth Godin

131. “Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.”

— Seth Godin

132. “The devil doesn’t need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics.”

— Seth Godin

133. “In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”

— Seth Godin

134. “The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.”

— Seth Godin

135. “Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.”

— Seth Godin

136. “Marketing management is now tribal leadership.”

— Seth Godin

137. “A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.”

— Seth Godin

138. “Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.”

— Seth Godin

139. “The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.”

— Seth Godin

140. “The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.”

— Seth Godin

141. “If you’re not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.”

— Seth Godin

142. “The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win.”

— Seth Godin

143. “The key to success is to find a way to stand out – to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.”

— Seth Godin

144. “Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.”

— Seth Godin

145. “Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.”

— Seth Godin

146. “Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.”

— Seth Godin

147. “Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.”

— Seth Godin

148. “The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.”

— Seth Godin

149. “And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.”

— Seth Godin

150. “Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.”

— Seth Godin