Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.”

— Seth Godin

152. “Don’t fix me; Love me for what’s broken.”

— Seth Godin

153. “Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.”

— Seth Godin

154. “Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.”

— Seth Godin

155. “Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.”

— Seth Godin

156. “Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again.”

— Seth Godin

157. “Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you’ll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn’t make you better.”

— Seth Godin

158. “Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.”

— Seth Godin

159. “No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.”

— Seth Godin

160. “No niche is too small if it’s yours.”

— Seth Godin

161. “The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It’s in being missed when you’re gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.”

— Seth Godin

162. “The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.”

— Seth Godin

163. “Ideas that spread win.”

— Seth Godin

164. “Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.”

— Seth Godin

165. “Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.”

— Seth Godin

166. “My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can’t live without you. Once you’ve demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.”

— Seth Godin

167. “The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.”

— Seth Godin

168. “Saying ‘no’ or even ‘stop’ is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.”

— Seth Godin

169. “But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.”

— Seth Godin

170. “Great leaders don’t try to please everyone. Great leaders don’t water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.”

— Seth Godin

171. “There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.”

— Seth Godin

172. “When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn’t big ’cause they ran a lot of ads. They’re big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.”

— Seth Godin

173. “Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.”

— Seth Godin

174. “We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.”

— Seth Godin

175. “What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It’s about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it’s something that people have wanted forever.”

— Seth Godin

176. “The answer to the question “where do good ideas come from” is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.”

— Seth Godin

177. “Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.”

— Seth Godin

178. “The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that’s actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want to go faster than any other path.”

— Seth Godin

179. “The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.”

— Seth Godin

180. “Good marketers tell a story.”

— Seth Godin

181. “You’re competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.”

— Seth Godin

182. “If you don’t know how it works, find out. If you’re not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn’t make sense, play with it until it does. If it’s not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.”

— Seth Godin

183. “Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.”

— Seth Godin

184. “The Bhagavad-Gita says, “It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else’s perfectly.”

— Seth Godin

185. “The time to look for a new job is when you don’t need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.”

— Seth Godin

186. “Dreamers don’t have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.”

— Seth Godin

187. “Don’t save the canary. Fix the coal mine.”

— Seth Godin

188. “Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it’s scarce, and that scacity creates value.”

— Seth Godin

189. “The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.”

— Seth Godin

190. “The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.”

— Seth Godin

191. “You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.”

— Seth Godin

192. “Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.”

— Seth Godin

193. “Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.”

— Seth Godin

194. “Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.”

— Seth Godin

195. “Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.”

— Seth Godin

196. “Products that are remarkable get talked about.”

— Seth Godin

197. “Surprise comes from defying expectations.”

— Seth Godin

198. “Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they’re not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.”

— Seth Godin

199. “Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you’re getting close to doing something important.”

— Seth Godin

200. “You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.”

— Seth Godin