Derek Sivers Quotes

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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…
• Customer service is the new marketing.
• 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…
• If it's not a hit, switch.
• 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…
• Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
• Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.
• The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
• It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.
• Every time you're making a choice, one choice is the safe/comfortable choice - and one choice is the risky/uncomfortable choice. the risky/uncomfortable choice is the…
• Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.
• Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.
• Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they weren’t in the…
• I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had…
• Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.
• Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself.
• Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
• When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.
• Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.
• Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

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