Jason Fried Quotes
If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and water, nor do homes weatherize themselves.
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I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
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I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.
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In my culture we had songs for everything, and that's lost now. There were songs for when people were born, when they died, when they sowed the field, baked bread and they're gone now mostly. I think we need these songs today. One of the reasons people connect to Wardruna in such a personal way is because there is a need for these songs and for that kind of connection to the nameless. Call it nature, god whatever.
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If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company.
