To find out if your idea is good, you can check if there is something similar on the market and if it is successful. You can also offer a first prototype with the possibility of pre-ordering and see how many buyers are willing to pay for it.

People usually prefer dissatisfaction over uncertainty.

With a classical 9-to-5 job we have to work 5 days to have 2 days off. If that job does not even fulfill you, that's a really bad deal.

A lot of the things you are interested in or passionate about can somehow be monetized. Even if it is not obvious at the first glance. Opportunities would be e.g. freelancing, coaching, consulting, info products, blogs or even writing books to achieve this.

We have to be unique - everything but ordinary! Because who constantly compares himself with others, will be one thing above all else: same.

Working independently from location can sometimes be exhausting and hard, but it's also a gift that many others do not get in their lifes. If you have the opportunity to travel a lot and work for yourself, you should always appreciate it and be grateful.

Find a job you love and you will never have to work in your life.

There will be times in which you feel like nothing is working out. You will doubt yourself. You'll think about throwing it all away and looking for a normal job again. Do not let this times get you down. Just keep on going. Only then you will slowly but surely succeed.

Look at construction workers. They work really hard, then have a quick break for lunch and just continue working hard later. Maybe they do not always want to, but they have to, and they pull it over every day. You need this attitude to be successful in your own business.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If we were to spend just that same time reflecting on what we want in life, like asking what we're going to do with two weeks off, we'd be shocked by our false standards and the aimless work of our busy days.

Fun is important, but goals are even more important. Imagine, you wake up in the morning and have nothing to do. You could turn on the TV, meet friends. But these are not the happier days. The happier days are when you know exactly what to do.

Your time in this life is limited and therefore very precious. The money comes and goes but you never get your time back. If you give someone your time, they should appreciate it. Therefore, letting someone steal your time should never be tolerated by you.

Instead of tormenting yourself through life, to reach your goal at some point in the future (e.g. the receipt of the pension), you should think about how you can manage to experience it every day as if you had already reached the goal (e.g. passive income, traveling regularly, working from home).

As a self-employed person you have the following advantages: you learn how to get jobs, you can get used to new situations more quickly, maybe you will lose a customer but you still have the job and you always have full control over your life and work and decide how it goes on.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Even with little capital, it is already possible to publish a first version of your product, service, etc.. This will possibly even generate some income early. You can also use this to get your customers involved in the process of product improvement (feedback), which brings you many benefits.

Perfectionism is good in some cases, but usually harmful in online business. Do not waste time: Out with the product, the website etc. Concentrate on the goal.

Always show yourself professionaly. Even if your web presence is not yet perfect in terms of design and content, you should always maintain a professional look. Everything else you can still improve and customize later on-the-fly.

Business is basically nothing more than a tangle of human relationships.

Once you've come up with a price for your product, service, etc., multiply it by 1.3. Most of the times you will come up with a price which is too low. With this multiplication you make sure that you don't sell your product under it's value.

Affiliate programs only make sense if your product already sells well in direct marketing. The keyword here is Conversions. How many of your visitors actually buy your product in the end? If the relationship is right, Affiliate Partners will be more willing to recommend your product.

You can not learn from mistakes that others have made.

Collect and maintain the email addresses of your readers and customers. These are the people who are most likely to pay for your future products, services, etc.

There is a lot to do, so pass on work to others as well. You should not do everything alone. On the internet you will find many platforms with qualified people who can help you with your projects.

The most dangerous drugs of all is success.

To save a lot of money, especially at the beginning of your business, you could also move to a country with a low cost of living. Until your business is doing really well. This strategy is known as geoarbitrage.

Get out of the comfort zone! Ideas: - Make a cold call daily. - Talk to a pretty person everyday. - Start each day with the task you want to do the least. - Shower ice cold every morning. - Every day do something you are afraid of.

Courage is at the beginning of action, happiness is at the end.

You may already call yourself an expert if you have more experience in a topic than others. It is enough if you have read one book more or you came into contact with this topic more often than others did. If you are able to teach others something new, you are an expert in their eyes.

Nothing inspires me more than the words: It won't work. When I hear that, I do everything I can to make the supposedly impossible possible.

'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

Oh, my gosh, I've never seen a film unless, you know, if I have to go and do ADR, loop-loop. But I don't watch after. I'm too critical.

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesnt ring true its not true.

One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.

The first man gets the oyster the second man gets the shell.

Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful.