"I realized why I need to start a……" — Derek Sivers
"I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas."
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32 Quotes by Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers has 32 quotes on this site.
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The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect,…
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Customer service is the new marketing.
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If anybody ever called our number, it would be picked up in less than 2 rings with a friendly voice…
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If it's not a hit, switch.
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If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And…
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Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
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Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.
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The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a…
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It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.
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Every time you're making a choice, one choice is the safe/comfortable choice - and one choice is the risky/uncomfortable choice.…
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Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little…
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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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More Bored Quotes
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
— Renata Adler
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
— Theodore Bikel
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not…
— Christina Aguilera
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
— Danny Boyle
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I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do.…
— Tom Brady
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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