Jason Fried Quotes

The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.

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• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Home
  • Job
  • Earth

• In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • American
  • House
  • Space

• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Law

• I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Music
  • Live
  • Job

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• White America is in the minority.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • White
  • Minority

• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mistake

• Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Business

• Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Experience
  • Reading
  • Poem

• You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Important
  • Overcoming
  • Nerves

• All the gang of those who rule usHope our quarrels never stopHelping them to split and fool usSo they can remain on top.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Fool
  • Gang

• If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Fool
  • Hints
  • Ginger

• The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Fool