Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.”

— Seth Godin

352. “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

353. “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

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

— Seth Godin

355. “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

356. “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.”

— Seth Godin

357. “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

358. “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.”

— Seth Godin

359. “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.”

— Seth Godin

360. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

363. “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.”

— Seth Godin

364. “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

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

— Seth Godin

366. “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

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

— Seth Godin

368. “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

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

— Seth Godin

370. “Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.”

— Seth Godin

371. “Following instructions is overrated.”

— Seth Godin

372. “There’s a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.”

— Seth Godin

373. “You can’t fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.”

— Seth Godin

374. “The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.”

— Seth Godin

375. “Selling ice cream on the beach in the summer is easy. Raising people’s expectations, engaging in their hopes and dreams, helping them see further – that’s the difficult work we signed up for. From now on, your customers know more than you do about your competitors. And so your commodity work, no matter how much effort you put into it, is not enough.”

— Seth Godin

376. “An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.”

— Seth Godin

377. “Here’s conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.”

— Seth Godin

378. “We choose not to be remarkable because we’re worried about criticism.”

— Seth Godin

379. “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

380. “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

381. “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

382. “Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.”

— Seth Godin

383. “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.”

— Seth Godin

384. “If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.”

— Seth Godin

385. “If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.”

— Seth Godin

386. “It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.”

— Seth Godin

387. “Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.”

— Seth Godin

388. “Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it’s easy, it’s already been done and it’s no longer valuable.”

— Seth Godin

389. “The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can’t tell me the change and you can’t tell me the someone, then you’re wasting your time.”

— Seth Godin

390. “The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don’t exist.”

— Seth Godin

391. “A lifeguard doesn’t have to spend much time pitching to the drowning person. When you show up with a life buoy, if the drowning person understands what’s at stake, you don’t have to run ads to get them to hold on to it.”

— Seth Godin

392. “The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.”

— Seth Godin

393. “Persistent, consistent, and frequent stories, delivered to an aligned audience, will earn attention, trust, and action.”

— Seth Godin

394. “Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you’ve got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don’t start, you never get a chance.”

— Seth Godin

395. “The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.”

— Seth Godin

396. “The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.”

— Seth Godin

397. “If you borrow money to make money, you’ve done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don’t need, you’ve done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse...”

— Seth Godin

398. “In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn’t necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.”

— Seth Godin

399. “You want it to be hard. If it’s hard, then that means others can’t do it easily and you can charge for that value.”

— Seth Godin

400. “The ladder of success isn’t a ladder. It’s a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.”

— Seth Godin