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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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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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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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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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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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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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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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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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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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
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I'm not leaving because we're in a bad situation. I'm leaving even sadder. It's not easy to leave the most prestigious club in the world.
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Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
