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Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done. -- Jason Fried
Culture is action, not words. -- Jason Fried
Questions you can wait hours to learn the answers to are fine to put in an email. Questions that require answers in the next few minutes can go into an instant message. For crises that truly merit a sky-is-falling designation, you can use that old-fashioned invention called the telephone. With -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
It's like when you're on hold and a recorded voice comes on telling you how much the company values you as a customer. Really? Then maybe you should hire some more support people so I don't have to wait thirty minutes to get help. -- Jason Fried
Plus, if you're a copycat, you can never keep up. You're always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that's already behind the times - just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That's no way to live. -- Jason Fried
Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice. -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
You don't need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started. -- Jason Fried
Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier. -- Jason Fried
Pulling seven people away from their work for an hour is worth seven hours of lost productivity. -- Jason Fried
What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well? -- Jason Fried
The best are everywhere -- Jason Fried
Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch. -- Jason Fried
Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually. -- Jason Fried
Check the cover letter. In a cover letter, you get actual communication instead of a list of skills, verbs, and years of irrelevance. -- Jason Fried
When you are new at something, you need to start creating. -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it. -- Jason Fried
When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious. -- Jason Fried
Most fears that have to do with people working remotely stem from a lack of trust. -- Jason Fried
When you turn guesses into plans, you enter a danger zone. Plans let the past drive the future. They put blinders on you. "This is where we're going because, well, that's where we said we were going." And that's the problem: Plans are inconsistent with improvisation. -- Jason Fried
Long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness. -- Jason Fried
A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby. -- Jason Fried
Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work - this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can't be found. Instead, it's just one interruption after another. -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
It won't be as easy, but lots of things that are worth doing aren't easy. It just takes commitment, discipline, and, most important, faith that it's all going to work out. -- Jason Fried
People will respect you more if you are open, honest, public, and responsive during a crisis. Don't hide behind spin or try to keep your bad news on the down low. You -- Jason Fried
It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours. -- Jason Fried
It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going. -- Jason Fried
If all you do is work, you're unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what's worth extra effort and what's not. And you wind up just plain tired. No one makes sharp decisions when tired. -- Jason Fried
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure. -- Jason Fried
Starting a business on the side while keeping your day job can provide all the cash flow you need. -- Jason Fried
If you're opening a hot dog stand, you could worry about the condiments, the cart, the name, the decoration. But the first thing you should worry aout is the hot dog. The hot dogs are the epicenter. Everything else is secondary. -- Jason Fried
There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast. These words gets in the way of healthy communication -- Jason Fried
So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while first. By all means, have as many great ideas as you can. Get excited about them. Just don't act in the heat of the moment. Write them down and park them for a few days. Then, evaluate their actual priority with a calm mind. -- Jason Fried
The best designers and the best programmers aren't the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn't matter. That's where the real gains are made. -- Jason Fried
To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you are part of something important. -- Jason Fried
If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.) -- Jason Fried
So hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers. -- Jason Fried
Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured rubber into the family waffle iron. That's how Nike's famous waffle sole was born. -- Jason Fried
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. -- Jason Fried
People automatically associate quitting with failure, but sometimes that's exactly what you should do. If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away. You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time. -- Jason Fried
A busy office is like a food processor - it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there. Each segment is filled with a conference call, a meeting, another meeting, or some other institutionalized unnecessary interruption. -- Jason Fried
Think about it this way: If you had to launch your business in two weeks, what would you cut out? -- Jason Fried
There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team. -- Jason Fried
Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs. -- Jason Fried
When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution. -- Jason Fried
The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they're imagining a hundred different things. -- Jason Fried
Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea. -- Jason Fried
Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses. -- Jason Fried
Projections are just bullshit. They're just guesses. -- Jason Fried
You have to revisit anyway The fact is that everyone has scalability issues, no one can deal with their service going from zero to a few million users without revisiting almost every aspect of their design and architecture. -Dare Obasanjo, Microsoft -- Jason Fried
The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's a justification for not trying. -- Jason Fried
If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this? If you merely replicate competitors, there's no point for your existence. Even if you wind up losing, it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others. -- Jason Fried
If you build software, every error message is marketing -- Jason Fried
Ironically, you'll probably get far more done when only half of your workday overlaps with the rest of your team. Instead of spending the entire day dealing with Urgent!!! emails and disruptive phone calls, you'll have the entire start (or end) of the day to yourself. -- Jason Fried
When you build an audience, you don't have to buy people's attention - they give it to you. This is a huge advantage. So build an audience. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos - whatever. Share information that's valuable and you'll slowly but surely build a loyal audience. -- Jason Fried
You'd be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen. -- Jason Fried
Grow slow and see what feels right - premature hiring is the death of many companies. And avoid huge growth spurts too - they can cause you to skip right over your appropriate size. -- Jason Fried
If you are going to do something, do something that matters. -- Jason Fried
The best feature of a product should really be the customer service. -- Jason Fried
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 -- Jason Fried
The owner actually tried the oil and chooses to carry it based on its taste. It's not about packaging, marketing, or price. It's about quality. He tried it and knew his store had to carry it. That's the approach you should take too. -- Jason Fried
Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers. -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance. -- Jason Fried
Has no prospects of being either, then you don't just need a remote position - you need a new job. Only the office can be secure Companies often go to great lengths to make employees -- Jason Fried
We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no. -- Jason Fried
Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy -- Jason Fried
All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences. -- Jason Fried
Other people's failures are just that: other people's failures. If -- Jason Fried
"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step. -- Jason Fried
How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it. -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it. -- Jason Fried
Plans let past drives the future. -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself -- Jason Fried
Don't be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that's sustainable and profitable, whether it's big or small, should be -- Jason Fried
Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more. -- Jason Fried
The technology is here; it's never been easier to communicate and collaborate with people anywhere, any time. But that still leaves a fundamental people problem. The missing upgrade is for the human mind. -- Jason Fried
Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed -- Jason Fried
Ideas are cheap and plentiful. The original pitch idea is such a small part of a business that it's almost negligible. The real question is how well you execute. -- Jason Fried
It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine. -- Jason Fried
Press Releases are spam -- Jason Fried
[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. -- Jason Fried
We're willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That's our line in the sand. -- Jason Fried
If circumstances change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary. -- Jason Fried
Believe it or not, the bigger problem isn't scaling, it's getting to the point where you have to scale. Without the first problem you won't have the second. -- Jason Fried
The most important thing is to begin. -- Jason Fried
Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger. -- Jason Fried
When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it. -- Jason Fried
You can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems. -- Jason Fried
The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth. -- Jason Fried
Motivation is pivotal to healthy lives and healthy companies. Make sure you're minding it. -- Jason Fried
Meetings: "They often include at least one moron who inevitably
gets his turn to waste everyone's time
with nonsense". -- Jason Fried
Once you [work on your idea extra hours], you'll learn whether your excitement and interest is real or just a passing phase. -- Jason Fried
If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen. -- Jason Fried
What you do is your legacy. -- Jason Fried
Details reveal themselves as you use what you're building. You'll see what needs more attention. You'll feel what's missing. You'll know which potholes to pave over because you'll keep hitting them. That's when you need to pay attention, not sooner. The -- Jason Fried
How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day? -- Jason Fried
No time is no excuse -- Jason Fried
Would you go into a relationship planning the breakup? Would you write the prenup on a first date? Would you meet with a divorce lawyer the morning of your wedding? That would be ridiculous, right? -- Jason Fried
If you run your ship with the conviction that everyone's a slacker, your employees will put all their ingenuity into proving you right. -- Jason Fried
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. -- Jason Fried
No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say. -- Jason Fried
The longer something takes, the less likely it is that you're going to finish it. -- Jason Fried
If you've never given a speech before, do you want your first speech to be in front of ten thousand people or ten people? You don't want everyone to watch you starting your business. It makes no sense to tell everyone to look at you if you're not ready to be looked at yet. -- Jason Fried
It's simple until you make it complicated. -- Jason Fried
The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use. -- Jason Fried
"Easy" is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs. -- Jason Fried
Whenever you can, swap "Let's think about it" for "Let's decide on it." Commit to making decisions. Don't wait for the perfect solution. Decide and move forward. -- Jason Fried
What do you gain if you ban employees from, say, visiting a social-networking site or watching YouTube while at work? You gain nothing. That time doesn't magically convert to work. They'll just find some other diversion. -- Jason Fried
Easy. Easy is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs. "That should be easy for you to do, right?" But notice how rarely people describe their own tasks as easy. For you, it's "Let me look into it" - but for others, it's "Get it done. -- Jason Fried
Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. -- Jason Fried
Standing for something isn't just about writing it down. It's about believing it and living it. -- Jason Fried
When you treat people like children, you get children's work. -- Jason Fried
The design is done when the problem goes away. -- Jason Fried
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 -- Jason Fried
You don't need to win every medal to be successful. -- Jason Fried
No one is as smart as all of us. -Seth Godin, author/entrepreneur -- Jason Fried