Jason Fried Quotes
Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
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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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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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I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit.
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Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?
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To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
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I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.
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Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
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Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
