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Inspirational Seth Godin Quotes About Success
Here is my collection of inspiring quotes about success from American author and former business executive Seth Godin.
“If failure is not an option, then neither is success.” – Seth Godin
“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.” – Seth Godin
“If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.” – Seth Godin
“Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.” – Seth Godin
“Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.” – Seth Godin
“The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about.” – Seth Godin
“Plans are great but missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.” – Seth Godin
“Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.” – Seth Godin
“The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.” – Seth Godin
“We don’t need more stuff. We need more humanity.” – Seth Godin
“People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.” – Seth Godin
“We believe what we want to believe in, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.” – Seth Godin
“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.” – Seth Godin
“The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.” – Seth Godin
“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
“Doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve been getting.” – Seth Godin
“The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed.” – Seth Godin
“You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make a choice.” – Seth Godin
“Take appropriate risks, risks that keep you in the game even if you fail.” – Seth Godin
“The only way to get good at solving problems is to solve them.” – Seth Godin
“Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion.” – Seth Godin
“Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.” – Seth Godin
“You have to push yourself to be spectacularly better at the thing you bring to the marketplace than most people. And you can.” – Seth Godin
“Liberate yourself from the need to be right.” – Seth Godin
“This is an economy based on connection. Can you be heard, can you connect, can you be trusted?” – Seth Godin
“Be genuine. Be remarkable. be worth connecting with.” – Seth Godin
“Everyone is not your customer.” – Seth Godin
“You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.” – Seth Godin
“Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice.” – Seth Godin
“People will go where they can grow.” – Seth Godin
“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.” – Seth Godin
“I do things which I’m afraid of.” – Seth Godin
“We are all special in our own way the moment we choose to be.” – Seth Godin
“Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.” – Seth Godin
“If your audience isn’t listening, it’s not their fault. It’s yours.” – Seth Godin
“The enemy of fear is creativity.” – Seth Godin
“Anything worth doing is worth doing because you changed someone else.” – Seth Godin
“Go ahead, so something impossible.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes From His Best Selling Books
Here is my collection of inspiring quotes taken from a couple of bestselling books written by American author Seth Godin.
“Try is the opposite of hiding.” – Seth Godin
“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
“Is it any wonder we teach this mindset? Factories and managers don’t want spunk, or even innovation. They generally seek compliance. We rely on the disobedient few for innovation, but today, innovation is our only option.” – Seth Godin
“Stop advertising and start innovating.” – Seth Godin
“Quitting is not the same as failing.” – Seth Godin
“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.” – Seth Godin
“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
“Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant.” – Seth Godin
“The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path.” – Seth Godin
“Today, most marketers don’t notice, track, or interact with people until they are customers.” – Seth Godin
“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
“Little thoughts are ephemeral. They come, and inevitably, they go. We don’t remember them an hour later, never mind a week or a month later.” – Seth Godin
“One part of your brain worries about survival and anger and lust. The rest of it creates civilization.” – Seth Godin
“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
“This is marketing done right. Marketing where the marketer changes the product, not the ads.” – Seth Godin
“Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.” – Seth Godin
“We’ve greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.” – Seth Godin
“Differentiate to succeed.” – Seth Godin
“As new forms of media develop and clutter becomes ever more intense, it’s the asset of permission that will generate profits for marketers.” – Seth Godin
“Your opportunity lies in finding a neglected worldview, framing your story in a way that this audience will focus on and going from there.” – Seth Godin
“It’s not enough to find a niche that shares a worldview. That niche has to be ready and able to influence a large group of their friends.” – Seth Godin
“Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.” – Seth Godin
“The secret to being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong. The secret is to being willing to be wrong.” – Seth Godin
“The organizations that succeed realize that offering a remarkable product with a great story is more important and more profitable than doing what everyone else is doing just a bit better.” – Seth Godin
“People clump together into common worldviews, and your job is to find a previously undiscovered clump and frame a story for those people.” – Seth Godin
“Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Marketing Quotes
Here is my collection of inspiring quotes about marketing from American author and former business executive Seth Godin.
“Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” – Seth Godin
“Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.” – Seth Godin
“In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.” – Seth Godin
“Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin
“It’s easier to love a brand when the brand loves you back.” – Seth Godin
“Soon is not as good as now.” – Seth Godin
“Dig your well before you’re thirsty.” – Seth Godin
“If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won’t need to spend it on advertising.” – Seth Godin
“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
“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes From His Leadership Book Tribes
Here is my collection of inspiring quotes taken from Tribes written by Seth Godin.
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“You don’t need a keyboard to lead…you only need the desire to make something happen.” – Seth Godin
“Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.” – Seth Godin
“Everyone is now also a leader.” – Seth Godin
“Kings have always worked to maintain stability because that’s the best way to stay king.” – Seth Godin
“Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the
“Leaders make a ruckus.” – Seth Godin
“Leadership doesn’t always start at the top, but it always manages to affect the folks at the top.” – Seth Godin
“Everything I did was for us, not for me. I didn’t manage; I led.” – Seth Godin
“A crowd is a
“Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out in front of their tribes, who create movements.” – Seth Godin
“For the first time ever, everyone in the organization – not just the boss – is expected to lead.” – Seth Godin
“Leadership isn’t difficult, but you’ve been trained for years to avoid it.” – Seth Godin
“Leadership is about creating change that you believe in.” – Seth Godin
“If you want us to follow you, don’t be boring.” – Seth Godin
“The fastest growing churches are the newest ones.” – Seth Godin
“The essence of leadership is being aware of your fear (and seeing it in the people you wish to lead).” – Seth Godin
“Great leaders don’t want attention, but they use it. They use it to unite the
“When a CEO takes the spoils of royalty and starts acting like a selfish monarch, he’s no longer leading. He’s taking.” – Seth Godin
“Deciding to lead, not manage, is the critical choice.” – Seth Godin
“Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable.” – Seth Godin
“You get to choose the
“Great leaders don’t try to please everyone.” – Seth Godin
“No one anoints you as leader…Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.” – Seth Godin
“Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get…the intent of the leader matters.” – Seth Godin
“The top of the pyramid is too far away from where the action is to make much of a difference.’” – Seth Godin
“The art of leadership is understanding what you can’t compromise on.” – Seth Godin
“Leadership almost always involves thinking and acting like the underdog. That’s because leaders work to change things, and the people who are winning rarely do.” – Seth Godin
“Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Business
Here is my collection of inspiring quotes about business from American author and former business executive Seth Godin.
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin
“Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.” – Seth Godin
“The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.” – Seth Godin
“You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin
“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
“Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.” – Seth Godin
“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.” – Seth Godin
“Playing safe is very risky.” – Seth Godin
“Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.” – Seth Godin
“An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.” – Seth Godin
“Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.” – Seth Godin
“Good marketers measure.” – Seth Godin
“Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.” – Seth Godin
“Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.” – Seth Godin
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin
“Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.” – Seth Godin
“People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.” – Seth Godin
“A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.” – Seth Godin
“Decide, before you start, that you’re going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you’re reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn’t to persuade you to change, it’s to help you choose what to change.” – Seth Godin
“If you’re going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a post-it or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It’s simple: if three weeks go by and you haven’t taken action on what you’ve written down, you wasted your time.” – Seth Godin
“It’s not about you, it’s about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it… pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that’s the main reason it’s a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.” – Seth Godin
“Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Competition
Here are some motivating quotes about competitions from American author and former business executive Seth Godin.
“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
“Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn’t.” – Seth Godin
“The goal, then, isn’t to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.” – Seth Godin
“Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.” – Seth Godin
“There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.” – Seth Godin
“Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.” – Seth Godin
“The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.” – Seth Godin
“…treasure what it means to do a day’s work. It’s our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it’s certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day’s work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you’ll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.” – Seth Godin
“Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.” – Seth Godin
“Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Dreams
Here are some inspiring quotes about dreams from American author Seth Godin.
“Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.” – Seth Godin
“Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.” – Seth Godin
“Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.” – Seth Godin
“School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.” – Seth Godin
“Dreamers don’t have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.” – Seth Godin
“When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it’s not, dream bigger.” – Seth Godin
“We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.” – Seth Godin
“Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They’re not in your business, but they’re in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.” – Seth Godin
“Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.” – Seth Godin
“Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Employees
Here are some motivating quotes about employees from former business executive Seth Godin.
“If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it’s entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.” – Seth Godin
“If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.” – Seth Godin
“Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Criticism
Here are some inspiring quotes about criticism from American author Seth Godin.
“One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.” – Seth Godin
“Criticism comes to those who stand out.” – Seth Godin
“Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copy edit the world, not to design it.” – Seth Godin
“If you’re remarkable, then it’s likely that some people won’t like you. That’s part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise – ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.” – Seth Godin
“Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.” – Seth Godin
“We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.” – Seth Godin
“I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven’t sought out and read a review or a tweet since.” – Seth Godin
“Nobody says, ‘Yeah, I’d like to set myself up for some serious criticism!’ And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.” – Seth Godin
“What people are afraid of isn’t failure. It’s blame. Criticism.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Goals
Here are some motivational quotes about goals from American author Seth Godin.
“Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We’re proud of you for having them. But it’s possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that’s really frightening you–the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.” – Seth Godin
“Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It’s to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.” – Seth Godin
“Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.” – Seth Godin
“I don’t like offending people, and it’s easy to offend people when you don’t know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.” – Seth Godin
“My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else’s.” – Seth Godin
“Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.” – Seth Godin
“The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.” – Seth Godin
“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
“Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.” – Seth Godin
“The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you’re an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.” – Seth Godin
“In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that’s never been previously contemplated. But when we’re discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what’s new.” – Seth Godin
“The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.” – Seth Godin
“The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.” – Seth Godin
“The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.” – Seth Godin
“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.” – Seth Godin
“I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that’s a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you’d have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk … I’ve made the decision that I’m never trying to make everything okay. I’m trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.” – Seth Godin
“Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it’s now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.” – Seth Godin
“If you don’t like your definition of ‘good enough’, then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.” – Seth Godin
“Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.” – Seth Godin
“The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.” – Seth Godin
“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.” – Seth Godin
“The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Hard Work
Here are some motivating quotes about hard work from American author Seth Godin.
“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
“Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.” – Seth Godin
“Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won’t waste time doing it over.” – Seth Godin
“I’m not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I’m proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.” – Seth Godin
“Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Inspirational Quotes
Here are some awesome quotes of inspiration from American author Seth Godin.
“You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.” – Seth Godin
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
“One theory says that if you treat people well, you’re more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can.” – Seth Godin
“How do I dance with fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.” – Seth Godin
“As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.” – Seth Godin
“The only purpose of starting is to finish” – Seth Godin
“Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.” – Seth Godin
“Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.” – Seth Godin
“The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that’s how long it’s going to take, guys.” – Seth Godin
“Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.” – Seth Godin
“Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Motivational Quotes
Here are some motivational quotes to remember from American bestselling author Seth Godin.
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
“All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.” – Seth Godin
“The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don’t waste them.” – Seth Godin
“Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.” – Seth Godin
“It’s not an accident that successful people read more books. ” – Seth Godin
“No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.” – Seth Godin
“The ladder of success isn’t a ladder. It’s a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.” – Seth Godin
“The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.” – Seth Godin
“You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There’s no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don’t spring up overnight… Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.” – Seth Godin
“The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don’t feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.” – Seth Godin
“You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.” – Seth Godin
“You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.” – Seth Godin
“Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.” – Seth Godin
“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
“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.” – Seth Godin
“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you’ve chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it’s the players on the field who are truly alive.” – Seth Godin
“The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.” – Seth Godin
“Courage doesn’t always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn’t always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.” – Seth Godin
“The rest of the world isn’t nearly as important as the few who are here.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Positivity
Here are some inspiring quotes about positivity from American bestselling author Seth Godin.
“The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.” – Seth Godin
“Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” – Seth Godin
“Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.” – Seth Godin
“Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.” – Seth Godin
“You can’t lose. Go, go, go!” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Social Media
Here are a few awesome quotes about social media from American author Seth Godin.
“Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.” – Seth Godin
“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” – Seth Godin
“Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” – Seth Godin
“Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.” – Seth Godin
“Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.” – Seth Godin
“Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.” – Seth Godin
“You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.” – Seth Godin
“The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Technology
Here are some impressive quotes about technology from American bestselling author Seth Godin.
“Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.” – Seth Godin
“Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.” – Seth Godin
“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
“You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.” – Seth Godin
Seth Godin Quotes About Internet
Here are some impressive quotes about the Internet from American bestselling author Seth Godin.
“The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.” – Seth Godin
“Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we’re even).” – Seth Godin
“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
“The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.” – Seth Godin
FAQs | Top Seth Godin quotes
Here are some frequently asked questions about Seth Godin quotes.
Who is Seth Godin?
Seth Godin is an American author, entrepreneur, and public speaker known for his work in the field of marketing and business.
What is Seth Godin famous for?
Seth Godin is famous for being a renowned author, entrepreneur, and marketing expert.
What books has Seth Godin published?
The books Seth Godin has published include:
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
What was a famous Seth Godin quote?
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.
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