Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Surprise comes from defying expectations.”

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202. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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207. “Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can’t see it.”

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208. “The enemy of fear is creativity.”

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209. “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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210. “Defending mediocrity is exhausting.”

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211. “Average feels safe but it’s not. It’s invisible.”

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

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213. “If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it’s unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.”

— Seth Godin

214. “Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.”

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215. “All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.”

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216. “Life’s too short” is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it’s true. You don’t have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It’s not just pointless, it’s painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

— Seth Godin

217. “The world doesn’t owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.”

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218. “Your tactics can make a difference, but your strategy – your commitment to a way of being and a story to be told and a promise to be made – can change everything.”

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

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220. “Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.”

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221. “Great work is always shunned at first.”

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222. “When we think about what might go wrong, we’re more likely to design something that goes right.”

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223. “When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.”

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224. “I don’t like offending people, and it’s easy to offend people when you don’t know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.”

— Seth Godin

225. “There’s no map for being an artist.”

— Seth Godin

226. “Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.”

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227. “The abundance mindset makes it easier to be graceful.”

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228. “Abundance is possible, but only if we can imagine it and then embrace it. Will.”

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229. “The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don’t lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.”

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230. “Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours.”

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231. “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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232. “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.”

— Seth Godin

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

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

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235. “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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236. “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.”

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237. “Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.”

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

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

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

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241. “You don’t become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That’s because if you’re the same, so are plenty of other people.”

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

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243. “All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.”

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244. “Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”

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

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

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

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249. “Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.”

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250. “Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.”

— Seth Godin