Jason Fried Quotes

There’s simply no getting around it: in hiring for remote-working positions, managers should be ruthless in filtering out poor writers.

Whenever executives talk about how their company is really like a big ol’ family, beware. They’re usually not referring to how the company is going to protect you no matter what or love you unconditionally. You know, like healthy families would. Their motive is rather more likely to be a unidirectional form of sacrifice: yours.

The quickest way to disappointment is to set unreasonable expectations.

Working 40 hours a week is plenty. Plenty of time to do great work, plenty of time to be competitive, plenty of time to get the important stuff done.

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

The most important thing is to begin.

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

Things get harder as you go, not easier. The easiest day is day one. That’s the dirty little secret of business.

great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

We’ve frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

Respect the work that you’ve never done before.

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

Similarly, if you lose someone, don’t replace him immediately. See how long you can get by without that person and that position.

It’s not uncommon for people to pick up their phones dozens of times a day when some push notification makes it buzz, because WHAT IF IT WAS SOMETHING SUPER IMPORTANT! (It just about never is.)

You have to keep asking yourself if the way you’re working today is the way you’d want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not “later.