Seth Godin Quotes

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

I think it's important to do great work.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

Always do your best.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

I just want to do really good work.

It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'