Seth Godin Quotes

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

I didn't want to do something that was easy for me.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

With the solo stuff, it's like starting over from scratch. It's rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.

I felt, and it may sound a bit stupid, that I want to try things that are hard.

I don't like doing things that are easy!

What I like is the journey, the year-round struggle to improve.

Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.

Yeah, I guess generally I don't want things ever to be easy. While there's some danger of doing something that loses your personal stamp on things, I'd rather take the chance of doing that and do something slightly uncomfortable or hard for myself.

Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

I don't like making my job easier. How are you accomplishing anything if there's no struggle? If I have to create a struggle that doesn't exist, I'll do that. Time and money constraints are a great way to do it.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Things that are worth doing are never easy.