Top 55 Seth Godin Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Seth Godin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys an

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.
Seth Godin
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
If a product’s future is unlikely to be remarkable – if 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.
Seth Godin
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction.
Seth Godin
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.
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When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
Seth Godin
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction.
Seth Godin
Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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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.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
Seth Godin
Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
Seth Godin
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
Seth Godin
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
We’re not going to outgrow our need for information.
Seth Godin
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It’s not just about entertainment – it’s about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
Seth Godin
If a product’s future is unlikely to be remarkable – if 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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
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
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
Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
Seth Godin
The minute there’s a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.
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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
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.
Seth Godin
The way to work with a bully is to take the 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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
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.
Seth Godin
The way to work with a bully is to take the 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.
Seth Godin