I love the sentiment of this quote; achieving success sometimes means you have to be a bit different.

What’s more interesting, is that the entire world and internet attributes it to Dr. Seuss. Yet it never appears in his writings and was never something he said.

Like Sinbad’s Shazam movie and the Fruit of the Loom Logo, this quote’s attribution to Dr. Suess is a collective imagination.

I’m not surprised, as Dr. Seuss’s writings were staples of our childhood reading and of our parents. It sounds right in our heads to hear that quote coming from The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, or Sam-I-Am.

Perhaps we’ll learn someday of the original author. Until then, there are probably a few books to read with your kids and your parents.