Jason Fried Quotes

Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.

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• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Appearance

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Word
  • Survival

• My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Hard Work

• Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • History
  • Culture
  • Question

• If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • More
  • About
  • Over

• Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Love
  • Shoes
  • Fetishist

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Talk
  • Ifs

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • True
  • Reality
  • Reflect

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Words
  • Ideas

• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Why
  • Art

• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Find
  • Paradise
  • Paths

• 'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • War
  • Song
  • Ride

• I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see, so many good people.' And it's vice versa, and it helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goal

• When the mirror meets with an ugly woman, when a rare ink-stone finds a vulgar owner, and when a good sword is in the hands of a common general, there is utterly nothing to be done about it.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Good
  • Done
  • Mirror

• The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

  

  John Templeton
  • Humble

• I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Art
  • Job
  • Respect

• Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Time