Jason Fried Quotes
A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being professional and strong and always right and being a booming voice. I just don't buy that. I think that leadership is a soft skill; it's a people skill.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'
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I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.
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The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
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A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being professional and strong and always right and being a booming voice. I just don't buy that. I think that leadership is a soft skill; it's a people skill.
