Seth Godin Quotes

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Hard work always wins in the end.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.

If you put the work in, and you show that you're willing to work hard, you'll succeed.

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

If you work, you prosper. If you don’t, you don’t.

The philosophy of my life is the harder I worked, the luckier I got.

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

I wanted to put in the time and the work, because eventually it pays off in a good way.

The hard work pays off.

Hard work speaks for itself.