The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
SG
Seth GodinSeth's Blog, 'Competition as a crutch' (2012)
About Seth Godin
American author and blogger on marketing, leadership and creative work. (b. 1960)
More from Seth Godin
- Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take.Seth's Blog, 'The secret of the web' (2008)
- In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure.Purple Cow (2003)
- A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea.Tribes (2008)
- The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.Seth's Blog, 'The importance of going first' (2012)
More quotes on creativity and innovation
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.Kurt Vonnegut
- Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury
- We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.Ray Bradbury
- I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.Wayne Gretzky
- Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee
- Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.Bruce Lee
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