Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

205. “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

206. “Surprise comes from defying expectations.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

209. “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

210. “I see things differently when I’m focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

215. “The enemy of fear is creativity.”

— Seth Godin

216. “Defending mediocrity is exhausting.”

— Seth Godin

217. “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.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

227. “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

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

— Seth Godin

229. “That’s your opportunity – to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

236. “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

237. “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

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

— Seth Godin

239. “What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

247. “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.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

249. “All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin