Quotes by Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn’t that enough?

Enough

Helping

People

Business is not about money. It’s about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

Dream

Helpful

Marketing

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.

Dream

Littles

Regret

Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.

Answers

Gains

Helping

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.

Book

Nice

Writing

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.

Successful

Tv Shows

Years

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your “character” or “nature” just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

Character

Matter

Things In Life

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 and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Needs

Opposites

World

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.

Bored

Ideas

Trying

In the end, it’s about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

Ends

Want

What You Want

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Answers

Art

Believe

Book

Bored

Challenges

Character

Company

Customers

Decision

Design

Drains

Dream

Ends

Enough

Everyday

Expression

Forget

Gains

Girlfriend

Hands

Helpful

Helping

Ideas

Independent

Inspiration

Jobs

Language

Littles

Marketing

Matter

Motivation

Moving

Needs

Never Forget

Nice

Opposites

Passion

People

Perfect

Programming

Raises

Regret

Sexy

Stay Strong

Successful

Things In Life

Trying

Tv Shows

Want

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Quotes by Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn’t that enough?

Business is not about money. It’s about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

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.

Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.

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.

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your “character” or “nature” just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

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 and realize that the opposite may also be true.

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.

In the end, it’s about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

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