Seth Godin Quotes

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

Small, daily elevations compound into massive results over time.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.

We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here, and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold.

I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books sell, it's this trust.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

I want to do the best I can right away. There's no point for me to just kind of be relaxed about it. Of course, in each match winning is out of my control, but I want to try to do the best I can as soon as I can, and I want to have 10 successful years and not five slow ones and then five good ones.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.