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Jason Fried
American Businessman
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity. Jason Fried
Stupidity Mark Rite Passage Exhaustion Sustained
You have to live with your decisions every day. Why live with one you're uneasy with? 'Because it'll make you money' is a common reply. But I don't think that's good enough. Jason Fried
Good Day You Every Day Money Live Every Think Enough Make Because Uneasy Reply Common Decisions Your Why
Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation. Jason Fried
Too Much Salt Every Carefully Too Meetings Recklessly Spice Destroy Destroys Morale Poured Over Like Motivation Sprinkled Dish Much Should Many Enhance
Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person. Jason Fried
Work Great People Matter Will Great People Great Person Unsatisfied Inevitably Person Want Turn Working Things Imaginary
Meetings should be great - they're opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a table to directly communicate. That should be a good thing. And it is, but only if treated as a rare delicacy. Jason Fried
Good Great Together People Communicate Opportunities Rare Group Meetings Table Only Delicacy Directly Good Thing Around Sitting Should Thing Treated
I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to. Jason Fried
Life Work Day You People Complicated Simple Few Think Way Complicated Things About Simple Things Well Expect Few Things Done Just Want Them Really Your Ever Things Appreciate
It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going. Jason Fried
Work You Frustration Pride Leader Employees Ownership Easy Only Point Lead Feel Also Understand Does Real Escape Forget Get Going Where Them View Hard Wide Things
The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs. Jason Fried
Needs You Financial Mercy Big Few Others Risk More Relying Catering Also Mostly Inevitably Handful Up Than Any Just Ends Customer Customers Product Your Pays Specific
Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case. Jason Fried
You Sometimes Easy Rarely Case Had Get Lucky Things Imagined
Respect the work that you've never done before. Jason Fried
Work You Respect Before Never Done
Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people. Jason Fried
People Different Kinds Approaches Enterprises Kinds Small Small Businesses Take Selling Very Different Businesses Two
We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away. Jason Fried
Business Big Lose Our Collection Percent Risk Small Big Companies Account Goes Bank Want Companies Away
I'd love to see more businesses take this approach - intentionally rightsizing themselves. Hit a number that feels good and say, 'Let's stick around here.' Jason Fried
Love Good Approach Say See More Take Feels Stick Around Hit Intentionally Themselves Businesses Here Number
Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room. Jason Fried
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People pulling 16-hour days on a regular basis are exhausted. They're just too tired to notice that their work has suffered because of it. Jason Fried
Work Tired People Exhausted Too Days Because Just Notice Regular Regular Basis Suffered Basis Pulling
When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time. Jason Fried
Time You Patience People Understanding Pay Pay Attention Relate Attention Periods Short Sustained Less Tolerant Harder Sleep
If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape. Jason Fried
Think Way Possible Results Shape Take New Employee Demonstrate Begin New Way Then Produced Forward Company
When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build. Jason Fried
Time Money Build Easy Results Tension Line
We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends. Jason Fried
Best Sometimes Our Spit Pick Like Make Terrible Terrible Thing Deadlines Bully Friends Them Fun Even Actually Thing
If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company. Jason Fried
You Business People Better Tell More Attract Well Understand Story Customers Your Help Help People Company
A company gets better at the things it practices. Jason Fried
Better Practices Gets Company Things
As businesses grow, all sorts of things that once were done on the fly - including creating new products - have a way of becoming bureaucratized. Jason Fried
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When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy. Jason Fried
You Guy Call Making Making Decisions Decisions Numbers
I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right. Jason Fried
People First Before Analytical Plenty Trigger Tend Entrepreneurs Highly Know Line Up Just Who Right Pull Numbers
In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left. Jason Fried
Every Back Way Case Almost Left Cutting Things
I'm a designer, but I rely on programmers to bring my ideas to life. By learning to code myself, I think I can make things easier for all of us. Similarly, I want to be able to build things on my own without having to bother a programmer. Jason Fried
Life Myself Learning Build Own Think Easier Able My Own Similarly Having Rely Bother Ideas Make Without Want Us Code Things Designer Bring Programmer Programmers
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