Jason Fried Quotes
I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
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Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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I was a great help-side defender in college, but as far as really wanting to lock somebody up, that was never really my focus.
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I don't have a wine cellar. Just tea day and night.
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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
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I loved drawing, but I just couldn't do it to the level that some of my friends could. That pulled me up unconsciously because I wanted to be like them, and I wanted to draw.
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.
