Anything You Want By Derek Sivers
A quick and easy read. Such a great and inspirational story regarding the creation and growth of CD baby. Definitely worth a read if you want to get motivated.
How Strongly I Recommend it 8/10
My Notes
Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
the real point of doing anything is to be happy, so do only what makes you happy.
for an idea to get big big big, it has to be useful. And being useful doesn't need funding.
if you want to be useful, you can always start now, with only 1 percent of what you have in your grand vision. It'l be a humble prototype version of your grand vision, but you'll be in the game. You'll be ahead of the rest, because you actual y started, while others are waiting for the finish line to magical y appear at the starting line.
it's how many useful things i create, whether songs, companies, articles, websites, or anything else. If i create something that's not useful to others, it doesn't count. But i'm also not interested in doing something useful unless it needs my creative input.
when one customer wrongs you, remember the hundred thousand who did not.
when you make a business, you're making a little world where you control the laws. It doesn't matter how things are done everywhere else. In your little world, you can make it like it should be.