Jason Fried Quotes
Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
Quotes to Explore
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
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Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
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I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
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A major investigation, once it gets underway, is as exciting as watching reruns of Big Brother, although possibly involving less sex and violence.
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I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.
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One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I'm prepared and I audition and they don't hire me, I'm always just amazed, thinking, 'Wow! For that money, they could've had Bruce McGill, and they didn't take me? I just think that's amazing.'
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I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!
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I can account for two of those touchdowns.
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Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
