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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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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.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
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The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.
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I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.
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… ; but conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ; and habit is our idea of eternity.
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As businesses grow, all sorts of things that once were done on the fly - including creating new products - have a way of becoming bureaucratized.
