Derek Sivers Quotes

You don’t love someone to shape their future.
You don’t judge your friendships by how successful your friend becomes.
So don’t love and judge your children that way.
Don’t try to change them.
Just give them a great environment where they can thrive.
Give them the safety to experiment, make mistakes, and fail up.

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

This is an orchestra. You are the composer and conductor.

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

You know what your great book is.
Whether the Bible, Tanakh, Upanishads, Quran, Think and Grow Rich, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, or another, follow it diligently.

Your biggest obstacle to getting rich is the harmful meaning you’ve attached to it.
Your biggest advantage can be projecting a helpful meaning onto it.

Don’t hope.
Hope is wanting things to be different than they are.
Wanting to change yourself is self-loathing.

Relax for the same result

Being stupid means avoiding thinking by jumping to conclusions.

The future is unpredictable and uncontrollable.
Picture all the things that could go wrong.
Prepare for each, so they won’t surprise or hurt you.

Here’s how to live: Chase the future.

Four years before I started CD Baby, as I was recording my first album, I needed to borrow $20,000 to buy studio equipment. My dad said, “Instead of my lending you money, start a corporation. Then the family business can buy shares in your corporation.

Don’t answer a hard question too quickly.
Don’t stop at the first answer.
In mystery stories, the first suspect is not the culprit.

Never forget why you’re really doing what you’re doing. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn’t that enough? How

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