Jason Fried Quotes

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

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• Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Different
  • History
  • Alone

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Proud

• I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • May
  • Stop
  • Years

• It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Believe
  • Reading

• I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Action
  • Violence

• I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Home
  • Shopping
  • Holiday

• Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Positive
  • Rights
  • Election

• Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Language
  • Last
  • Ordinary

• I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Mystery

• New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

  

  Kiran Desai
  • Time
  • City
  • Travel

• It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

  

  Livy
  • She

• And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie

• You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Respect

• The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • People

• Γνώσῃ διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.

  

  Aeschylus

• In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Society

• Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • World
  • Age

• I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.

  

  Debra Monk
  • School
  • Business
  • High

• Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

  

  Jason Fried