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Jason Fried Quotes

American - Businessman | -

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.

Work Leader Frustration Pride View

Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they'll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they'll bring you down.

Life Good People Choices Friends

Respect the work that you've never done before.

Work Respect You Done Never Before

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.

Work Tired People Days Exhausted

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.

Motivation Meetings Too Much Spice

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

Flexible Deadline Combination Crucial

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

Stupidity Exhaustion Mark Passage

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

Smart Computers Think Powerful Your

Who you work with is even more important than who you hang out with because you spend a lot more time with your workmates than your friends.

Work Time Friends You Important Out

Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.

Work Great People Person Want Will

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.

Good Great Together People Meetings

Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.

Time Quality Practice Losing Better

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