Jason Fried Quotes
A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
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I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.
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Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.
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If I can utilise anything, I'll utilise it.
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There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
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I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold.
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A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.
