Simon Sinek Quotes

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.