Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “That’s your opportunity – to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.”

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

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

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

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

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258. “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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259. “Strategic quitting is a conscious decision you make based on the choices that are available to you. If you realize you’re at a dead end compared with what you could be investing in, quitting is not only a reasonable choice, it’s a smart one.”

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

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261. “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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262. “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.”

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263. “The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.”

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264. “As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.”

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265. “Yes, you’re an imposter. But you’re an imposter acting in service of generosity, seeking to make things better. When we embrace imposter syndrome instead of working to make it disappear, we choose the productive way forward. The imposter is proof that we’re innovating, leading, and creating.”

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266. “If you can’t sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?”

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

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268. “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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269. “Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.”

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270. “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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271. “Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.”

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

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273. “No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.”

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274. “They say the best way to complain is to make things better.”

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275. “Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want.”

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

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277. “No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?”

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278. “Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.”

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279. “Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can’t deal with the stress of the moment.”

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280. “Go for the edges. Challenge yourself and your team to describe what those edges are, and then test which edge is most likely to deliver the marketing results you seek.”

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281. “Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.”

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282. “If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.”

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283. “No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn’t okay now. Change, by definition, changes things.”

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284. “The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.”

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285. “The resistance is not something to be avoided, it’s something to seek out.”

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286. “The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.”

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287. “The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.”

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

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289. “Don’t wait to be picked. Pick yourself.”

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290. “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.”

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291. “People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.”

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292. “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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293. “Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.”

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294. “The only thing all successful people have in common is that they’re successful, so don’t waste your time copying “the successful strategies” of others.”

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295. “Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.”

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296. “If you can bring someone belonging, connection, peace of mind, status, or one of the other most desired emotions, you’ve done something worthwhile. The thing you sell is simply a road to achieve those emotions, and we let everyone down when we focus on the tactics, not the outcomes. Who’s it for and what’s it for are the two questions that guide all of our decisions.”

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297. “If you’re not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it’s almost certain you’re not reaching your potential as a leader.”

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298. “Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you’re doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they’re hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.”

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299. “Courage doesn’t always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn’t always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.”

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300. “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.”

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