## The Automattic Creed

> ### [I will never stop learning.](https://automattic.com/creed/never-stop-learning/) [I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me.](https://automattic.com/creed/wont-just-work/) [I know there’s no such thing as a status quo.](https://automattic.com/creed/status-quo/) I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers. [I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague](https://automattic.com/creed/help-a-colleague/), and I’ll remember the days before I knew everything. [I am more motivated by impact than money](https://automattic.com/creed/impact-and-money/), and I know that Open Source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. [I will communicate as much as possible, because it’s the oxygen of a distributed company.](https://automattic.com/creed/communication-is-oxygen/) [I am in a marathon, not a sprint](https://automattic.com/creed/marathon-sprint/); no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is to put one foot in front of the other every day. [Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable.](https://automattic.com/creed/insurmountable/)

Please steal these words! Make them your own, have a Creed for your own project. We consider them part of the public domain.

For some context, [check out Matt’s post “Why Your Company Should Have A Creed.”](https://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/)

Another manifesto or creed we like [is Acumen’s](http://acumen.org/manifesto/). We love [Gitlab’s values](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/). Amazon [has great leadership principles](https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-principles). If there are others we should have on our radar please let us know. Automattician Greg Brown [compares it to the Bill Walsh Standard](https://greg.blog/2016/01/27/the-walsh-standard-v-automattic-creed/). These principles are great for a printed poster or digital wallpaper: Check out this [cool visualization](https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/automattic-creed-poster.pdf) of the creed by Patrick Rauland and Clark Wolter, and this [colorful art poster](https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/automattic-creed.png) made by the Automattic Design team.

Does this inspire you? [Join the team](https://automattic.com/work-with-us/).

Version 1.1, Creed last updated 2025-10-29.