Top 75 Most Inspiring Seth Godin Quotes (MOTIVATE)

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Top 10 Most Famous Seth Godin Quotes (BEST)

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from. — Instead of wondering when your next **vacation** is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.

Marketers make things better by making change happen. — Marketers make things better by making **change** happen.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. — Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It’s in the soul of the artist.

The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out - to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins. — The key to **success** is to find a way to stand out – to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. — **Change** is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative **success** is.

12 Seth Godin Quotes to Inspire Success

“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

Create something that is so good people can’t sleep without talking about you.

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. — 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.

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. — 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.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success. — If failure is not an option, then neither is **success**.

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.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

We are all special in our own way the moment we choose to be.

You don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you get to make every day.

We believe what we want to believe in, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

“Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you’d rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you’ve done that, to do it again the next day.”
Seth Godin

19 Seth Godin Quotes on Business and Marketing

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.

Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.

Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

People don't want what you make. They want the way it will make them feel, and there aren't that many feelings to choose from. — People don’t want what you make. They want the way it will make them feel, and there aren’t that many feelings to choose from.

“Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.”
Seth Godin

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

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

Don’t look for great ideas, focus on generating lots of bad ideas and some good ones will slip in. — Don’t look for great ideas, **focus** on generating lots of bad ideas and some good ones will slip in.

Focus on a small audience you can possibly live with and make a difference. If you can change 10 lives you can get the next 50. — **Focus** on a small audience you can possibly live with and make a difference. If you can change 10 lives you can get the next 50.

In our desire to please everyone, it’s very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won’t need to spend it on advertising.

Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

Build trust and earn attention. The entity that gets the most trust will get the most customers. — Build **trust** and earn attention. The entity that gets the most trust will get the most customers.

It’s easier to love a brand when the brand loves you back.

11 Seth Godin Quotes on Leadership and Change

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in. — **Leadership**, on the other hand, is about creating **change** you believe in.

The secret of leadership is simple Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. — The secret of **leadership** is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

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. — 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.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.

People want to deal with people not machines and automated answers. Be human and personal at work. The humility we respond with is key. — People want to deal with people not machines and automated answers. Be human and personal at work. The **humility** we respond with is key.

The only way to be indispensable is to be different.

Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Great work doesn’t come out of nowhere. It comes from interactions with people you seek to change. — Great work doesn’t come out of nowhere. It comes from interactions with people you seek to **change**.

Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. — **Change** isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking **forgiveness**, later.

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. — **Courage** is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

23 Wise Seth Godin Quotes That Will Make You Think

“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