Top 500 Seth Godin Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

355. “Competence is no longer scarce.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

357. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

361. “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

362. “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

363. “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

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

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365. “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.”

— Seth Godin

366. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

369. “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

370. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

373. “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

374. “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

375. “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.”

— Seth Godin

376. “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

377. “Make it easy to believe.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

379. “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

380. “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

381. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

384. “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

385. “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

386. “Following instructions is overrated.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

388. “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

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

— Seth Godin

390. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

394. “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

395. “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

396. “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

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

— Seth Godin

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

— Seth Godin

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

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

— Seth Godin