Seth Godin Quotes

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Figure out how to do things that have never been done before.

You have to be different, great or first.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.

We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.