Jason Fried Quotes

Success isn't about being the biggest. It's about letting the right size find you.

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• Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Disaster

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Problem
  • See
  • Colors

• 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.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Death
  • Success
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Help
  • Success
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Want
  • Success
  • Me

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Success
  • Beginning
  • Selling

• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • She
  • Pretty

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Success

• I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Good
  • Matter
  • Go

• We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.

  

  Edmond H. Fischer
  • Success
  • Better
  • Saying

• Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • World
  • Future
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Lost

• Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Always
  • Cuba

• Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

  

  Adam Rapp

• Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

  

  Scott Joplin
  • Melancholy
  • Panic
  • Wall Street

• Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given. … With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Time
  • God
  • Singing

• Success isn't about being the biggest. It's about letting the right size find you.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Success