Seth Godin Quotes

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

How can I go out there and create value?

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.

Negative energy is wasteful.

Unproductive effort is never a good thing.

Differentiate with value or die with price.

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

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

The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.

Time elaborately thrown away.

We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

It's a vast waste of space.

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.