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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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Deep in the secret chambers of my heartI muse my life-long hate, and without flinchI bear it nobly as I live my part.
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I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
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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.
