Jason Fried Quotes

As businesses grow, all sorts of things that once were done on the fly - including creating new products - have a way of becoming bureaucratized.

Jason Fried

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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Queen Latifah
- Life
- Up
- Deep
Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

Nadia Comaneci
- History
- Story
- First
When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

Earl Weaver
- Time
- Long
- Play
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

Ma Huateng
- Look
- Early
- Google
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Val Kilmer
- Me
- Never
- Find
I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

Warren Spector
- Life
- Business
- Running