
Anything You Want

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
the way to grow your business is to focus entirely on your existing customers. Just thrill them, and they’ll tell everyone.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
Business is not about money. It’s about making dreams come true for others and for yourself. Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself. When you make a company, you make a utopia. It’s where you design your perfect world. Never do anything just for the money. Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only
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I get the deeper happiness of knowing that the lucky streak I’ve had in my life will benefit tons of people—not just me. I get the pride of knowing I did something smart and irreversible before I could change my mind. I get the safety of knowing I won’t be the target of wrongful lawsuits, since I have very little net worth. I get the unburdened
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Make yourself unnecessary to the running of your business.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person’s mistake.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
don’t think you need a huge vision. Just stay focused on helping people today.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
For an idea to get big-big-big, it has to be useful. And being useful doesn’t need funding.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
Happiness is the real reason you’re doing anything, right? Even if you say it’s for the money, the money is just a means to happiness, isn’t it?