Jason Fried Quotes
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.
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Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.
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People from all over the world want to be in New York. This rather simple idea took me a long time to learn.
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Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.
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I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.
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They see me all the time at Bayreuth and think I only like Wagner's music, and it's not true.
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Success isn't about being the biggest. It's about letting the right size find you.
