Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Seth Godin

253. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

256. “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

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

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

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

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

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262. “Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.”

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

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

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265. “A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.”

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266. “Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.”

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267. “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?”

— Seth Godin

268. “I think “creativity” is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.”

— Seth Godin

269. “Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec.”

— Seth Godin

270. “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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271. “A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

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274. “The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.”

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

279. “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.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

282. “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.”

— Seth Godin

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

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285. “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.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

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

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290. “The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship. Shipping means hitting the publish button on your blog, showing a presentation to the sales team, answering the phone, selling the muffins, sending out your references. Shipping is the collision between your work and the outside world.”

— Seth Godin

291. “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.”

— Seth Godin

292. “One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.”

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293. “Tiffany’s blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and “price is no object.”

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

— Seth Godin

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

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297. “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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298. “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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299. “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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300. “If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.”

— Seth Godin