Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.”

— Seth Godin

352. “Ideas don’t get smaller when they’re shared, they get bigger.”

— Seth Godin

353. “We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.”

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354. “What will make someone a linchpin is not a shortcut. It’s the understanding of which hard work is worth doing. The only thing that separates great artists from mediocre ones is their ability to push through the dip.”

— Seth Godin

355. “Listen to your fear but don’t obey it.”

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356. “The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.”

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357. “You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.”

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358. “Don’t scale because you think there’s a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you’re ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.”

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359. “Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.”

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360. “In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.”

— Seth Godin

361. “Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.”

— Seth Godin

362. “Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.”

— Seth Godin

363. “Why are you easily replaceable at one venue but not the other? Are you charming when you go on a date or meet a handsome guy at a party? But not at a meeting at work?”

— Seth Godin

364. “The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.”

— Seth Godin

365. “Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.”

— Seth Godin

366. “Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.”

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367. “The best way to be missed when you’re gone, Is to stand for something when you’re here.”

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368. “If you’re different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.”

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369. “Competence is no longer scarce.”

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370. “The Dip is the long stretch between beginner’s luck and real accomplishment. The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out.”

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371. “A Timid Trapeze Artist Is a Dead Trapeze Artist.”

— Seth Godin

372. “People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!”

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373. “Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.”

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374. “I don’t think there’s a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what’s missing isn’t the ideas. It’s the will to execute them.”

— Seth Godin

375. “It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.”

— Seth Godin

376. “The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you’ll need later.”

— Seth Godin

377. “To be a superstar, you must do something exceptional. Not just survive the Dip, but use the Dip as an opportunity to create something so extraordinary that people can’t help but talk about it, recommend it, and, yes, choose it.”

— Seth Godin

378. “Mass attention is almost unattainable and it’s not clear that you want it.”

— Seth Godin

379. “Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman.”

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380. “The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.”

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381. “Our best work can’t possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don’t get it unlocks our ability to do great work.”

— Seth Godin

382. “The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.”

— Seth Godin

383. “Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message.”

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384. “Before a marketer can build trust, it must breed familiarity. But there’s no familiarity without awareness. And awareness – the science of letting people know you exist and getting them to understand your message – can’t happen effectively in today’s environment without advertising.”

— Seth Godin

385. “Think for a second about the people you know who are engaged, satisfied, eager to get to work. Most of them, I’ll bet, make change.”

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386. “There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes we’re being childlike. When we demand instant gratification and a guarantee that everything will be ok, we’re only being childish.”

— Seth Godin

387. “Depth of knowledge combined with good judgment is worth a lot. Depth.”

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388. “Tribes are about faith – about belief in an idea and in a community. And they are grounded in respect and admiration for the leader of the tribe and for the other members as well. Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.”

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389. “Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start.”

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390. “Make it easy to believe.”

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391. “The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.”

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392. “Passion isn’t project-specific. It’s people-specific.”

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393. “Your generosity is more important than your perfection.”

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394. “A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.”

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395. “Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.”

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396. “As Susan Kare, designer of the original Mac interface, said, “You can’t really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you’re lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it’s meaningful.”

— Seth Godin

397. “No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.”

— Seth Godin

398. “The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.”

— Seth Godin

399. “All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.”

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400. “Isn’t the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It’s not a bad thing to go back there. It’s the entire point.”

— Seth Godin