Seth Godin Quotes

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

You can't control what you can't measure

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

We simply must do better.

What gets measured, gets done.

Data not only measures progress—it inspires it. Once you start measuring problems, people are more inclined to take action to fix them, because nobody wants to end up at the bottom of a list of rankings.

I believe that if you want to do a good job at something, then you're always analyzing the job that you've done to see if you can do it better.

I kept a chart each day so I had an idea of how many shots I took and how many I made. Looking back on it now, I can appreciate the work ethic I put forward.

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.

Stats aren't everything.

We'll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don't know where those little things will come from but we'll continue to be diligent on them.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

Practice only makes for improvement.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

Everything can be improved.

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.