Jason Fried Quotes
I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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I'm living the American dream.
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Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.
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You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.
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You have to conquer the mountain if you are going any futher
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
