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

If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you o...
JASON FRIED

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural ...
JASON FRIED

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
JASON FRIED

You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We ...
JASON FRIED

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

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly ...
JASON FRIED

A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being profes...
JASON FRIED

It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does...
JASON FRIED

Give your employees a shot at showing the company a new way, and provide the room for them to chalk ...
JASON FRIED

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk wh...
JASON FRIED

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

Customers buy Basecamp without ever having to interact with us. If they do have a question, we handl...
JASON FRIED

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential f...
JASON FRIED

Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they'll enrich your life. Make bad cho...
JASON FRIED

I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire ...
JASON FRIED

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a ...
JASON FRIED

When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You s...
JASON FRIED

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We...
JASON FRIED

Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after al...
JASON FRIED

Meetings should be great - they're opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a...
JASON FRIED

You dont need to win every medal to be successful.
JASON FRIED

You want more constraints on you. You want to embrace constraints. Don't try to use resources to get...
JASON FRIED

You don't need a lot of the stuff you think you need.
JASON FRIED

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
JASON FRIED

The closer you are to your money, the better off you'll be.
JASON FRIED

Projections are bullshit. They're just guesses. Wait until the real thing happens and then when it h...
JASON FRIED

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
JASON FRIED

The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get w...
JASON FRIED

Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand i...
JASON FRIED

Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you w...
JASON FRIED

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

I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisa...
JASON FRIED

I believe if you start a business with the intent of making it huge, you're already prioritizing...
JASON FRIED

I like to think of myself as a leader whose door is always open. But I recently learned that an open...
JASON FRIED

I'm a designer, but I rely on programmers to bring my ideas to life. By learning to code myself,...
JASON FRIED

When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every pr...
JASON FRIED

By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become some...
JASON FRIED

I've found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who h...
JASON FRIED

The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
JASON FRIED

A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their w...
JASON FRIED

That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.
JASON FRIED

When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But...
JASON FRIED

Of these, only a small fraction has the potential to cross the critical threshold into terrorism. St...
DANIEL FRIED

It's unusual for someone to lose this much money and this many contracts so quickly.
STEPHEN FRIED

He's obviously a conservative man but in disposition, not in some kind of ideological way.
CHARLES FRIED

These women work incredibly hard. They take drugs for the same reason a truck driver takes drugs. To...
STEPHEN FRIED

I have talked to many models who have been sent by their agencies to get cleaned up. I don't think t...
STEPHEN FRIED

The fashion business has always had this problem trying to deal with self-destruction,
STEPHEN FRIED

it's important to make that show. You have to go away for at least a month and then do an interview ...
STEPHEN FRIED

They're going after her because she's a mother.
STEPHEN FRIED

We have supported Russia's proposal to Iran with respect to nuclear fuel enrichment on Russian terri...
DANIEL FRIED

There are many metrics involved in choosing a place for a hub. The first involves availability. Many...
BRANDON FRIED

when we supported Solidarity, we were criticized by the Europeans for being naïve. Yet in 1989, whe...
DANIEL FRIED

The main thing that drew me to him was that he was a beautiful writer, not just the clarity but the ...
CHARLES FRIED

The profession is designed to help the court by making sure that the best possible arguments - not m...
CHARLES FRIED

Our interests in security and our interests in democracy are indivisible,
DANIEL FRIED

My chief point is that these interests are indivisible. We cannot and will not have a one-dimensiona...
DANIEL FRIED

Democracy, not various forms of dictatorship, is the system best equipped to reconcile these values.
DANIEL FRIED

It is really a euphemism for asking the man, 'how are you going to decide particular cases that I ca...
CHARLES FRIED

A country which is more democratic and more reformed in its economy is apt to find its sovereignty s...
DANIEL FRIED

Rehnquist thought [the court] had gone way too far, and in many dissents was working to cut it back....
CHARLES FRIED

[The E.U. has been pressuring Washington to impose similar sanctions, but the Bush administration wa...
DANIEL FRIED

The days are over of doing it by paper, and I would say that most if not all of our members have ada...
BRANDON FRIED

The airlines are long-term partners, and we're hoping for the best resolution for the industry. But ...
BRANDON FRIED

will consult with our European friends and evaluate whether what we are doing is sufficient. I can't...
DANIEL FRIED

Some governments are enthusiastic. Some are reserved. I suspect some governments are wary,
DANIEL FRIED

But a handful of extremists can carry out a devastating terrorist attack.
DANIEL FRIED

Muslims' struggles with unemployment, discrimination, and integration have created an audience poten...
DANIEL FRIED

The three of them rented boards at the concession at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Seeing no signs, t...
RICK FRIED

My impression of him, and the impressions of everyone in the office, was he is a very fine lawyer, a...
CHARLES FRIED

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law...
CHARLES FRIED

[These may indicate an inability to] think lucidly and deeply about legal questions and express her ...
CHARLES FRIED

It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.
CHARLES FRIED

I think in many respects, his hold on his court in the last few years has begun to slip away.
CHARLES FRIED

We did not agree on some issues. I made it clear that the United States supports civil society inclu...
DANIEL FRIED

is not a price for the right to have a base, it is a payment for material services provided by the U...
DANIEL FRIED

We respect the deadline,
DANIEL FRIED

The Uzbek government made it clear that we need to leave the base, and we intend to leave it without...
DANIEL FRIED

We are not to be accused of an intention to establish an Islamic caliphate in Uzbekistan,
DANIEL FRIED

The treatments support rebuilding strength and resiliency that is essential for the recovery process...
DIANA FRIED

New Orleans remains a very difficult place to live and work. People are under tremendous pressure to...
DIANA FRIED

We see people of every color, different cultures and enjoy doing our small part to help make the cit...
DIANA FRIED

We do want to cooperate, but it has to be across the board, not just on counterterrorism and securit...
DANIEL FRIED

We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbek...
DANIEL FRIED

when we supported Solidarity, we were criticized by the Europeans for being naïve. Yet in 1989, whe...
DANIEL FRIED

Was es ist

Es ist Unsinn
sagt die Vernunft
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Lieb...
ERICH FRIED

The conversations that we have with Chris [are] mainly on the preparation of his game. At this stage...
JEFF FRIED

I think he'll (remain) here. I'm pretty confident about that.
JEFF FRIED

Steve's excited as can be. He's just excited to get there and perform.
JEFF FRIED

Steve went in first and foremost to inform the team that he made a mistake and he knows what happene...
JEFF FRIED

Steve is prepared to give them leadership. I truly believe this will make Steve a better player and ...
JEFF FRIED

Any time a team sees some friction . . . if that opportunity arises to capitalize, most teams want t...
JEFF FRIED

At this point, I'd very much like to discuss with them issues on the court or trades. Let that be...
JEFF FRIED

Talking with Steve, he has remorse. He was disappointed in himself at that moment He knows the co...
JEFF FRIED

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for...
ALFRED HERMANN FRIED

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international ana...
ALFRED HERMANN FRIED

Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN

Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of p...
JASON SEGEL

A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.
JASON DAY

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology...
JASON SILVA

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch w...
JASON SUDEIKIS

My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was ...
JASON ISBELL

Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unb...
JASON SEGEL

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.
JASON WU

There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have arti...
JASON ALDEAN

If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruc...
JASON STATHAM

I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want ...
JASON STATHAM

Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try...
JASON STATHAM

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that...
JASON BATEMAN

The Rock is the Rock, you know? He's the ultimate athlete, the professional man with precision. ...
JASON STATHAM

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents wil...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN

When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in t...
JASON WILES

As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm stil...
JASON DAY

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain tha...
JASON MRAZ

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't kn...
JASON KIDD

Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at...
JASON BATEMAN

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it...
JASON BATEMAN

There is a little chubby kid in me just waiting to bust out. I usually go running but am looking for...
JASON EARLES

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over r...
JASON NEWSTED

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arro...
JASON SEGEL

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
JASON STATHAM

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little proj...
JASON STATHAM

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER

The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the ...
JASON CHAFFETZ

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the s...
JASON MRAZ

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and peopl...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN

I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a...
JASON REITMAN

Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie B...
JASON SEGEL

Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. ...
JASON BEGHE

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're argui...
JASON KATIMS

When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart...
JASON KILAR

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones whe...
JASON SILVA

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all ...
JASON ISAACS

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
JASON KIDD

If a man does his best, what else is there?
JASON KIDD

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of know...
JASON KIDD

Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greate...
JASON CALACANIS

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and th...
JASON EPSTEIN

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you...
JASON MRAZ

I won't give up on us
JASON MRAZ

If you don't believe in the things you're doing, the answer isn't fooling yourself into thinking you...
JASON MYERS

There are so many attention whores out there, prostituting for people's acknowledgment
JASON MYERS

A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...
JASON LAUMARK

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
JASON KIDD

It's always too early to quit.
JASON KIDD

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
JASON KIDD

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or...
JASON KIDD

I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she wri...
JASON MORAN

High risk is high adrenaline.
JASON STATHAM

Nearly 30 million people ride Amtrak each year, and they should board the trains knowing that safety...
JASON CHAFFETZ

The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility ...
JASON CHAFFETZ

In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impre...
JASON BATEMAN

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for am...
JASON SILVA

Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going ...
JASON BATEMAN

The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances...
JASON ALDEAN

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.
JASON MARSDEN

I did a couple of American Express commercials.
JASON DOHRING

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't ...
JASON O'MARA

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'...
JASON MRAZ

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic...
JASON BATEMAN

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film...
JASON SILVA

I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm...
JASON O'MARA

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
JASON CALACANIS

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really abl...
JASON MORAN

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
JASON STATHAM

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good w...
JASON STATHAM

I'm sure everyone that has ever done an action movie has just drooled over how full of talent Br...
JASON STATHAM

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car cha...
JASON STATHAM

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left ...
JASON MRAZ

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
JASON ISAACS

While the whole 'God Butcher Saga' had elements of fantasy, sci-fi and horror all mixed toge...
JASON AARON

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to h...
JASON SUDEIKIS

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka ...
JASON SILVA

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself ...
JASON MRAZ

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn...
JASON MRAZ

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a sa...
JASON BATEMAN

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
JASON SILVA

We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and buil...
JASON KILAR

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people maki...
JASON KATIMS

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.
JASON RITTER

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.
JASON RITTER

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.
JASON DAY

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unex...
JASON SILVA

I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.
JASON STATHAM

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.
JASON ISBELL

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3...
JASON STATHAM

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that...
JASON SILVA

I eat a lot. I'm a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft ser...
JASON MITCHELL

I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.
JASON STATHAM

Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.
JASON STATHAM

Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you th...
JASON STATHAM

I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.
JASON STATHAM

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.
JASON STATHAM

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercis...
JASON STATHAM

I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.
JASON STATHAM

All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credi...
JASON STATHAM

I don't go in for the high-end gyms with the high-tech equipment and all the fancy stuff.
JASON STATHAM

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
JASON STATHAM

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

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

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