Jason Fried Quotes

When someone takes your time, it doesn’t cost them anything, but it costs you everything.

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.

Release yourself from the 9am-to-5pm mentality. It might take a bit of time and practice to get the hang of working asynchronously with your team, but soon you’ll see that it’s the work — not the clock — that matters.

There are two fundamental ways not to be ignored at work. One is to make noise. The other is to make progress, to do exceptional work.

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

If you’re pitching your boss to let you work from home a few days a week, a common rebuff is how envious your coworkers would be if you were granted this special privilege. Why, it simply wouldn’t be fair! We all need to be equally, miserably unproductive at the office and suffer in unity!

If you can’t fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not work longer hours.

You can’t credibly promote the virtues of reasonable hours, plentiful rest, and a healthy lifestyle to employees if you’re doing the opposite as the boss.

Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

Workaholism is a contagious disease.

People can’t get work done at work anymore. That turns life into work’s leftovers. The doggie bag. What’s worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it’s a mark of stupidity.

We don’t want reactions. We don’t want first impressions. We don’t want knee-jerks. We want considered feedback. Read it over. Read it twice, three times even. Sleep on it. Take your time to gather and present your thoughts — just like the person who pitched the original idea took their time to gather and present theirs.

Sleep is for the weak! Real A players only need four to five hours! Great accomplishments require great sacrifice! Bull. Shit.

Sometimes things you think are adding value actually subtract from it. Too much ketchup can ruin the fries. Value is about balance.

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