Seth Godin Quotes

No… I don't coach to be average, I'll tell you that.

I don't play this game to be average.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

Refuse to be average.

You can't win by being more average than average.

I played every sport in high school for one year. If I couldn't be great at it, I quit. I would rather not do it than be average.

I don't play this game to be an average tight end.

I'm not trying to be average.

I don't go for average.

I'm exceptional in everything that I do and I aspire to do.

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.