Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It’s not just about entertainment – it’s about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.”

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203. “Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.”

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204. “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

205. “It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.”

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206. “If it’s work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it’s art, we try to figure out how to do more.”

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207. “We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.”

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208. “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”

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209. “Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.”

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210. “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.”

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211. “In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.”

— Seth Godin

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

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213. “Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.”

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

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215. “All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.”

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216. “There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.”

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217. “Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.”

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218. “You don’t have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.”

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219. “We’ve greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.”

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220. “Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.”

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

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222. “Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.”

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

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224. “Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.”

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225. “Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations.”

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226. “Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.”

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227. “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.”

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228. “Art is the act of navigating without a map.”

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229. “Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.”

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

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231. “Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.”

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232. “You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.”

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233. “The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.”

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234. “What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.”

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235. “I think that any time reality doesn’t match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.”

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236. “Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.”

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237. “Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.”

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238. “Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.”

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239. “Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.”

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240. “We’re better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting – ’cause you’re never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?”

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241. “Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.”

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242. “Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.”

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243. “We fail when we give up too soon.”

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244. “Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.”

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245. “A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.”

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246. “After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.”

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247. “A day’s work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters.”

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248. “If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you’ve got. Just don’t plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.”

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249. “If you’re working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I’m not sure you’re doing your best work if you’re doing it on an iPhone.”

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250. “The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we’re wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.”

— Seth Godin