Seth Godin Firsts Quotations

Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910's, I wonder what they said? Like, the greatest invention since the telegraph or something? But the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available, no one bought it, no one knew about it. It was a complete and total failure.

Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

Great work is always shunned at first.

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.