Siobhan Davies Quotes

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

I want to leave a mark on society.

What you do does matter. And people do remember it and feel it.

The impact we have on people's lives, to me, is more important than any title anyone can carry.

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

I want to make a difference.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.