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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.

Delegate but don't abdicate

I'm not interested until I see their execution.

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

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

It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

If it's not a hit, switch.

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what's not working.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they'll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff

Let's never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

When you make a business you're making a little world.

Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.

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

Obvious to you is amazing to others.

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

If you think your life's purpose needs to hit you like a lightning bolt, you'll overlook the little day-to-day things that fascinate you.

No business plan survives first contact with customers.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

Trust, but verify. Remember it when delegating. You have to do both.

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. ... The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

To me, 'busy' implies that the person is out of control of their life.

When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

Most people don't know why they're doing what they're doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself.

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

Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.

Customer service is the new marketing.

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

If you're not saying 'Hell Yeah' about something, say 'No'.

I spent only $500 to start CD Baby. The first month, I earned back $300. But the second month I made $700, and it's been profitable every month since.

Never forget why you're really doing what you're doing.

The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.

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.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.