Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations.”

— Seth Godin

202. “The enemy of fear is creativity.”

— Seth Godin

203. “Emotional labor is the task of doing important work, even when it isn’t easy. Emotional.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

205. “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

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

— Seth Godin

207. “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.”

— Seth Godin

208. “Defending mediocrity is exhausting.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

212. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

216. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

221. “Deep change is difficult, and worth it.”

— Seth Godin

222. “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.”

— Seth Godin

223. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

227. “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.”

— Seth Godin

228. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

234. “All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

240. “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.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

242. “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

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

— Seth Godin

244. “The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.”

— Seth Godin

245. “Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make – stories that sell and stories that spread.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin