Seth Godin Quotes

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

It's difficult to innovate, but you must try to create a project under your ideas and philosophies to take you ahead of other clubs.

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

Never compete, create.

Don't bother doing something unless you're radically different from the competition.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

Don't be the best. Be the only.

We started as a small newspaper company and grew by providing competition and innovation in stale, near monopolistic markets.

No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive.

Where the rules of the road are not there, then there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity for entrepreneurs to bring in their innovation and their different way of thinking.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.

The vast masterpieces of art, business, science, and humanity were not constructed by practical people.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.