Jason Fried Quotes

I've run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don't get away. But hiring people when you don't have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.

Jason Fried

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WorkGreatPeopleYouRunReal

My favorite scene that we shot in Season 1 of 'Kingdom' was the 'dance party' the boys and I had after we had gone thrift shopping, and then a lovely family dinner together.

Joanna Going

FamilyTogetherDanceDinnerParty

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

John Ortberg

BestMeWorstOutBringWell

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

John Terry

MoneyLatePoolGoYoungWill

I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

Alvin Lee

MusicFunMeCompromiseGuitarFeel

I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product.

Srikumar Rao

LeaderBelieveYouGoalAspire

I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.

Simon Schama

MeRememberBadGirlfriendSeemHer

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.

Roberto Alomar

BaseballGameKnowFameBoyLittle

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.

Milo Yiannopoulos

JokeBehindFactEveryScientific

I like to think of myself as a leader whose door is always open. But I recently learned that an open door isn't enough.

Jason Fried

LeaderMyselfDoorThinkEnough

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

Joni Mitchell

GreatTimePrideAttentionBadKnow

You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

Jordan Peterson

YouSayMoreSameDragonAnything

We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very venerable place to perform. I'd never heard of anyone going into the Hall and kind of standing on the seats and playing throughout the aisles and having the audience stand on the seats. So when we did that in 2013, even for me it was a shock.

Jon Batiste

TimeMeStandPlaceKindNever

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