Derek Sivers Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.”
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“You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.”
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“Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.”
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“The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.”
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“Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.”
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“For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.”
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“The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.”
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“It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.”
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“If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.”
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“Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.”
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“When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.”
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“Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.”
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“Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.”
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“You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.”
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“The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.”
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“If I’m not saying ‘Hell Yeah!’ to something, then I say no.”
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“Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they don't know. Or they think they know, but it's just confabulation and biases. So ignore them unless what they say resonates with some real wisdom inside of you. Assume they're a fool and find out the truth for yourself.”
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“Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.”
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“Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.”
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“The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.”
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“I'm not interested until I see their execution.”
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“Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.”
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“Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.”
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“The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.”
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“Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself.”
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“Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.”
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“If anybody ever called our number, it would be picked up in less than 2 rings with a friendly voice answering, "CD Baby." From 7 am to 10 pm, there was always somebody to pick up a call in 2 rings. No voice mail system; no routing to different departments. We treated our customers like our best friends. You don't route your best friend's call to an automated system!”
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“You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.”
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