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77 Amazing Seth Godin Quotes
Seth Godin is a best selling author, speaker, marketer and entrepreneur.
His 18 books have been best sellers around the world and he was chosen as one of the 21 Speakers for the Next Century by Successful Meetings.
He holds an MBA from Stanford and was the Founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, the industry’s leading interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998.
Seth Godin is an inspiring and insightful individual who is best known for his emphasis on putting people first and placing a high value on the relationships between brands and their customers.
Below I’ve compiled the best Seth Godin quotes on business, life and marketing which are both inspiring and thought-provoking.
The Best Seth Godin Quotes:
1. “I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.” – Seth Godin
2. “If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.” – Seth Godin
3. “The secret to being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn’t fatal.” – Seth Godin
4. “People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.” – Seth Godin
5. “If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.” – Seth Godin
6. “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.” – Seth Godin
7. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” – Seth Godin
8. “Soon is not as good as now.” – Seth Godin
9. “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting.” – Seth Godin
10th Seth Godin Quote: “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” – Seth Godin
11. “Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.” – Seth Godin
12. “Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.” – Seth Godin
13. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin
14. “The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.” – Seth Godin
15. “Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.” – Seth Godin
16. “Dig your well before you’re thirsty.” – Seth Godin
17. “In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.” – Seth Godin
18. “Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don’t show up. They want to be missed when they’re gone.” – Seth Godin
19. “I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.” – Seth Godin
20th Seth Godin Quote: “The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.” – Seth Godin
21. “Your turn. Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go do that.” – Seth Godin
22. “The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of starting.” – Seth Godin
23. “Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.” – Seth Godin
24. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin
25. “The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.” – Seth Godin
26. “If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won’t need to spend it on advertising.” – Seth Godin
27. “Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.” – Seth Godin
28. “Differentiate to succeed.” – Seth Godin
29. “Quitting is not the same as failing.” – Seth Godin
30th Seth Godin Quote: “The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.” – Seth Godin
31. “And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. 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
32. “Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.” – Seth Godin
33. “Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.” – Seth Godin
34. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
35. “If failure is not an option, then neither is success.” – Seth Godin
36. “The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.” – Seth Godin
37. “If you’re brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated then you’re being too generous about your definition of brilliant.” – Seth Godin
38. “All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.” – Seth Godin
39. “There’s no record of Martin Luther King, Jr. or Gandhi whining about credit. Credit isn’t the point. Change is.” – Seth Godin
40th Seth Godin Quote: “Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.” – Seth Godin
41. “The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.” – Seth Godin
42. “You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.” – Seth Godin
43. “When exactly were you brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?” – Seth Godin
44. “The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.” – Seth Godin
45. “The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.” – Seth Godin
46. “Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.” – Seth Godin
47. “We’ve been raised with a false belief. We mistakenly believe that criticism leads to failure. From the time we get to school, we’re taught that being noticed is almost always bad. It gets us sent to the principal’s office, not to Harvard.” – Seth Godin
48. “Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person.” – Seth Godin
49. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.” – Seth Godin
50th Seth Godin Quote: “If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.” – Seth Godin
51. “You can’t shrink your way to greatness!” – Seth Godin
52. “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.” – Seth Godin
53. “If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.” – Seth Godin
54. “One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.” – Seth Godin
55. “Playing safe is very risky.” – Seth Godin
56. “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” – Seth Godin
57. “If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.” – Seth Godin
58. “Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.” – Seth Godin
59. “Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.” – Seth Godin
60th Seth Godin Quote: “It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.” – Seth Godin
61. “We notice what we choose to notice.” – Seth Godin
62. “Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.” – Seth Godin
63. “Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.” – Seth Godin
64. “Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.” – Seth Godin
65. “You can’t have good ideas unless you’re willing to generate a lot of bad ones.” – Seth Godin
66. “Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.” – Seth Godin
67. “Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That’s not marketing though, that’s efficiency.” – Seth Godin
68. “’Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?” – Seth Godin
69. “Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.” – Seth Godin
70th Seth Godin Quote: “In our desire to please everyone, it’s very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.” – Seth Godin
71. “Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.” – Seth Godin
72. “You don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you get to make every day.” – Seth Godin
73. “You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.” – Seth Godin
74. “Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.” – Seth Godin
75. “We believe what we want to believe in, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.” – Seth Godin
76. “The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don’t know.” – Seth Godin
77. “It’s clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.” – Seth Godin
