Book Summary: Anything you want – Derek Sivers

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My summary of this book

2021-02-27
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📕 The Book in 3 Sentences

• The main idea of this book in starting a new business where the main aim is to make life of others easy and helping them, and you create brand value and trust of your company in the world. If trust is high then money, customers and investors will come in naturally which will help the business to grow. The secret of growing business is not making big changes in the company, but the small things which will keep your customers and your employees happy.

🎨 Book impressions ?

• At present, I do not have a lot of ideas in the field of starting business. But this book gives a good aproach on how a business can grow with a sheer intention of helping others and making lives easier of a few people.

🧘‍♂️ How the Book Changed Me

• Till now, I had an impression that a successful business is the one which always focuses on making money and crushing their competition in the market. But this book gave another approach of what we call a business ‘successful’, which can be to make life of few other people easy and earning enough money for your survival.
• For me, the ultimate goal of life is being happy and if helping others and getting paid decent enough for my efforts will suffice. If I can achieve this, I will consider my business to be successful.

💭 My Top 3 Quotes

If you set up your business like you don’t need the money, people are happier to pay you. When someone’s doing something for the money, people can sense it, like a desperate lover. It’s a turnoff.

For an idea to get big big big, it has to be useful. And being useful doesn’t need funding.

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?

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