Seth Godin Quotes

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

I don't want to not be important.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Things are only as important as you make them out to be.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

The List is Life.