Derek Sivers Quotes

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

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

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

I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Entrepreneurs … benefit greatly from being willing to fail, willing to experiment. Good entrepreneurs tend to be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details. They’re persistent on what they’re trying to accomplish, but they are willing to rewrite the details as needed as they learn and as things fail.

Results transform the world, and a great dream creates results. That's what this thing we call 'business' is really all about.

McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.

Anytime is a good time to start a company.

We had a much bigger vision than creating a dating site.

Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.

What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.

NXT is my life. Plain and simple. I've put my heart and soul into this company, and I truly love it and its fans.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

We dreamed together of the world remade.