Seth Godin Quotes

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

Capability means imagination.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it's going to help Africa come out of, you know, a century of slump.