Derek Sivers Quotes

• Confidence attracts.Vulnerability endears

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Relationship

• A business plan should never take more than a few hours of work. Hopefully no more than a few minutes. The best plans start simple. A quick glance and common sense should tell you if the numbers will work. The rest are details.

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Business, Work

  Tags in Planning

• There’s a big difference between being self-employed and being a business owner. Being self-employed feels like freedom until you realize that if you take time off, your business crumbles. To be a true business owner, make sure you could leave for a year, and when you came back, your business would be doing better than when you left.

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Difference, Employment

• Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea

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

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Love, Success

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

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Business

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

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Experience, Goal

• If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Advice, Inspirational

  Tags in Movement

• 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

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Leader

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

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Idea

Derek Sivers (10)

Birth:	22nd September, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Musician

About

Derek Sivers is an American musician and businessman. He is best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians. CD Baby went on to become the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients. In June 2013, Sivers launched his new company, Wood Egg.

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