Jason Fried Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jason Fried
Jason Fried Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You'd be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen.
What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?
Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.
If you run your ship with the conviction that everyone's a slacker, your employees will put all their ingenuity into proving you right.
We're willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That's our line in the sand.
Customers don't just buy a product - they switch from something else. And customers don't just leave a product - they switch to something else
Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way
Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.
Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed
Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.
It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.
If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)
[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.
Don't sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don't think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.
When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary
Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.
The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.
Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.
All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences.
It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.
Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.
Meetings: "They often include at least one moron who inevitably
gets his turn to waste everyone's time
with nonsense".
gets his turn to waste everyone's time
with nonsense".
If you're solving someone else's problem, you're constantly stabbing in the dark. When you solve your own problem, the light comes on.
remote work has opened the door to a new era of freedom and luxury. A brave new world beyond the industrial-age belief in The Office.
Once you [work on your idea extra hours], you'll learn whether your excitement and interest is real or just a passing phase.
The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.
Check the cover letter. In a cover letter, you get actual communication instead of a list of skills, verbs, and years of irrelevance.
The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.