Complete Collection of Seth Godin Quotes

There is a reason why people read and get inspired with quotes from famous people and Seth Godin is one of them who inspires people around the world. I have compiled the 100 best Seth Godin Quotes for you to read and get inspired.

Seth Godin is an American author and former dot-com business executive. He is author of 18 best-selling books which have been translated into more than 35 languages. He left Spinnaker in 1986 and used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City. He then met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne. Few years later, Seth sold the book packaging business to his employees and focused his efforts on Yoyodyne, where he promoted the concept of permission marketing. In March 2006, Godin launched Squidoo. In July 2008, Squidoo was one of the 500 most visited sites in the world and later it was sold to HubPages. Recently in 2018, Godin was inducted into the American Marketing Association’s Marketing Hall of Fame.

He mostly writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing in digital age, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. He has written a lot of quotes which inspires the entrepreneurs and marketers. Here is the complete collection of Seth Godin Quotes which may inspire you to live the life of your dreams.

Collection of Best 100 Seth Godin Quotes

1. How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
2. If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
3. Don’t find customer for your products, find products for your customers.
4. The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
5. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
6. If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
7. Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make but about the stories you tell.
8. Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.
9. Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.
10. Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
11. If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
12. People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
13. You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
14. If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
15. We believe what we want to believe in, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.
16. The only people who get paid enough, get paid what they’re worth, are people who don’t follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map. That option is now available to everyone, so take it.
17. The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
18. 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.
19. Doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve been getting.
20. Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.
21. Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
22. The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about.
23. Plans are great but missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
24. Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.
25. The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.
26. The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.
27. We don’t need more stuff. We need more humanity.
28. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed.
29. Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.
30. Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it.
31. You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make a choice.
32. Take appropriate risks, risks that keep you in the game even if you fail.
33. The only way to good at solving problems is to solve them.
34. If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won’t need to spend it on advertising.
35. Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches you passion.
36. Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
37. Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.
38. Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
39. You have to push yourself to be spectacularly better at the thing you bring to the marketplace than most people. And you can.
40. Liberate yourself from the need to be right.
41. This is an economy based on connection. Can you be heard, can you connect, can you be trusted?
42. Be genuine, be remarkable, be worth connecting with.
43. Everyone is not your customer.
44. You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
45. Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
46. Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice.
47. If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you’ve just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
48. I do things which I’m afraid of.
49. Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
50. We are all special in our own way the moment we choose to be.
51. If your audience isn’t listening, it’s not their fault. It’s yours.
52. The enemy of fear is creativity.
53. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
54. Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts.
55. There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
56. Play safe is very risky.
57. Go ahead, do something impossible.
58. People will go where they can grow.
59. Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them.
60. Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
61. When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
62. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
63. The way to work with a bully is to take a ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.
64. I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there – a project a week.
65. Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
66. The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
67. I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
68. Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.
69. Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.
70. Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that’s where charisma comes from, from the leading.
71. Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
72. The minute there’s a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
73. Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it’s easier, it scales and it’s profitable. But people don’t like it – we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.
74. What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It’s about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it’s something that people have wanted forever.
75. 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.
76. We’re not going to outgrow our need for information.
77. My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
78. Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customer. It’s not just about entertainment – it’s about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
79. Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
80. If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
81. The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There’s an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.
82. If a product’s future is unlikely to be remarkable – of you can’t imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product – it’s time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.
83. The danger of the web is that you go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
84. 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.
85. This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
86. A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You’re welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
87. The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
88. And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
89. If you’re going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
90. I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
91. I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction.
92. Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.
93. I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
94. Kickstarter isn’t a profit center, it’s an organizer and an instigator.
95. If you’re going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don’t work.
96. Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
97. One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
98. I think there’s plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That’s just not the kind of blog I’m writing, and I’m not the kind of blogger that could do that.
99. I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn’t increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
100. The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you’ve ever been able to create before.

Nothing can inspire more than the experiences of the people who have changed the world in their own ways. Seth Godin is one of them and this Complete Collection of Seth Godin Quotes is presented here to inspire you.