Jason Fried Quotes

You'd be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen.

Press Releases are spam

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.

If you build software, every error message is marketing

What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?

Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

If circumstances change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary.

If you run your ship with the conviction that everyone's a slacker, your employees will put all their ingenuity into proving you right.

No time is no excuse

We're willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That's our line in the sand.

Customers don't just buy a product - they switch from something else. And customers don't just leave a product - they switch to something else

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

The best feature of a product should really be the customer service.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

You don't need to win every medal to be successful.

Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

Think about it this way: If you had to launch your business in two weeks, what would you cut out?

No one is as smart as all of us. -Seth Godin, author/entrepreneur

Starting a business on the side while keeping your day job can provide all the cash flow you need.

Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

The longer something takes, the less likely it is that you're going to finish it.

Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.

It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

What you do is your legacy.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy

How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

Don't sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don't think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.

Most fears that have to do with people working remotely stem from a lack of trust.

It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary

Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more.

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.

Plans let past drives the future.

Culture is action, not words.

Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.

All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences.

That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no.

Motivation is pivotal to healthy lives and healthy companies. Make sure you're minding it.

Standing for something isn't just about writing it down. It's about believing it and living it.

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

Projections are just bullshit. They're just guesses.

Meetings: "They often include at least one moron who inevitably
gets his turn to waste everyone's time
with nonsense".

The most important thing is to begin.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work.

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses.

"Easy" is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs.

The best are everywhere

When you are new at something, you need to start creating.

If you're solving someone else's problem, you're constantly stabbing in the dark. When you solve your own problem, the light comes on.

If you are going to do something, do something that matters.

The design is done when the problem goes away.

remote work has opened the door to a new era of freedom and luxury. A brave new world beyond the industrial-age belief in The Office.

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch.

Once you [work on your idea extra hours], you'll learn whether your excitement and interest is real or just a passing phase.

Long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

Pulling seven people away from their work for an hour is worth seven hours of lost productivity.

The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.

Check the cover letter. In a cover letter, you get actual communication instead of a list of skills, verbs, and years of irrelevance.

The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.

Other people's failures are just that: other people's failures. If

Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself

So hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers.

Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses.

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's a justification for not trying.