Seth Godin Quotes

We only value something when we measure it.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

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

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

Nothing is important.

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

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

We treasure what we can measure.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

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

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

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

You're too important to just... die.

I don't want to not be important.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.