Seth Godin Quotes

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Never confuse movement with action.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

It’s what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

What holds attention determines action.

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

If you do nothing you get nothing.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.