If you try to please everyone, you might as well kiss your ass goodbye. How far do you agree with this statement?

Sometimes, I think that I have been miserable all through my life till this of age because of this wrong notion of trying to make everyone feel happy and so all the major decisions which otherwise have to be personal, were taken keeping in view their impact on the other persons and not me. Maybe I can make others happy being a subordinate to themselves but on the inside, my private self accuses me of a sin against my own existence.
Do you think one should be rather independent and take decisions as per his/her wishes than to please people around? Moreover, how many people can a person please? Not all of them can be pleased, right?