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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.
— Derek Sivers
Delegate but don't abdicate
— Derek Sivers
I'm not interested until I see their execution.
— Derek Sivers
When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.
— Derek Sivers
If it's not a hit, switch.
— Derek Sivers
Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what's not working.
— Derek Sivers
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
— Derek Sivers
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
— Derek Sivers
Let's never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.
— Derek Sivers
When you make a business you're making a little world.
— Derek Sivers
Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
— Derek Sivers
Obvious to you is amazing to others.
— Derek Sivers
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.
— Derek Sivers
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.
— Derek Sivers
No business plan survives first contact with customers.
— Derek Sivers
You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.
— Derek Sivers
The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. ... The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
— Derek Sivers
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.
— Derek Sivers
When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.
— Derek Sivers
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.
— Derek Sivers
The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
— Derek Sivers
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.
— Derek Sivers
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.
— Derek Sivers
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.
— Derek Sivers
Customer service is the new marketing.
— Derek Sivers
Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?
— Derek Sivers
If you're not saying 'Hell Yeah' about something, say 'No'.
— Derek Sivers
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.
— Derek Sivers
Never forget why you're really doing what you're doing.
— Derek Sivers
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.
— Derek Sivers