Jason Fried Quotes
Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.
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I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
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I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
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I've never lived through a moment in history where people are using their voices and becoming strong advocates for what they believe in.
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I think a lot of people read the album cover as something scary or creepy. I think it's something positive...something lasting.
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Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.
