Seth Godin Quotes

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

Everything's so, like, saturated nowadays. So if you wanna, like, make an impact, you gotta do something different. Do something new.

If you can't find what's unique, people aren't going to listen.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

I didn't want to be regular. I didn't want to be this type of player, how everybody else play. I always try to learn and just be better so I could be different, y'know, instead of being content like a lot of people I've seen were.

I don't wanna be like everybody else, I don't wanna rap like everybody else.

I have to say that the biggest lesson I have learned is to find your way to stand out.

When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'

I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

The last thing you want to do is blend in. You want to stand out, and hopefully in a good way.

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

I live by the business model that there is a better than, a less than, or a different than. Those are the three categories. I chose to be different than. The one that's different than will stand out with the proper work ethic.

You have to think of a new way to completely surprise people who think they're hip. I always said you could make an NC-17 movie with no sex and no violence. Now I don't know what that could possibly be, but if you could think it up, you'd have a hit.

You almost have to force yourself to stay in a vacuum to become different - if you really want to be different.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.