50 Jason Fried Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jason Fried

American Businessman

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We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter. Jason Fried

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Lots of business owners spend their lives trying to land the whale - the single, massive, brand-name account that will fatten the top line and bestow instant credibility. But big customers make me nervous. Jason Fried

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When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away. Jason Fried

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Remind yourself that other people's jobs aren't so simple. Jason Fried

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Many of the things we do at Basecamp would be considered unusual at most companies: paying for employees' hobbies, allowing our team to work from anywhere, even footing the bill for fresh fruits and veggies in our staff members' homes. Jason Fried

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I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care? Jason Fried

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Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since. Jason Fried

It's like, the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in, and your day is shredded to bits because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do. Jason Fried

I think that sleep and work are very closely related - not because you can work while you're sleeping and sleep while you're working. That's not really what I mean. I'm talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events. Jason Fried

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Customers buy Basecamp without ever having to interact with us. If they do have a question, we handle everything via email. We've been in the business of automation. We've never really valued full service. Jason Fried

Being a salesperson prepares you for just about everything in business: how to listen, empathize, and persuade; when to back off and when to step in; and, of course, how to close. Jason Fried

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If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.' Jason Fried

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The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories. Jason Fried

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It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments. Jason Fried

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If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can. Jason Fried

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That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout. Jason Fried

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These two staples of work life - meetings and managers - are actually the greatest causes of work not getting done at the office. In fact, the further away you are from both meetings and managers, the more work gets done. Jason Fried

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Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs. Jason Fried

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Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward. Jason Fried

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The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it. Jason Fried

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I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well. Jason Fried

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