Seth Godin Quotes

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

We need to execute fewer things better.

One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well.

Simplicity is the key to success.

I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do.

I have four jackets, five pants, whatever, that are all the same. If you see U2 in concert, they wear the same thing every night. They just got a bunch of them. Albert Einstein used to wear brown suits every day. Why waste brainpower on something that is trivial?

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.