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The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
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

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.
 Derek Sivers
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
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
 Derek Sivers
Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.
 Derek Sivers
Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.
 Derek Sivers