“NEVER HIRE ANYONE to do a job until you’ve tried to do it yourself first.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
The best feature of a product should really be the customer service. — Jason Fried Customer Copy Share Image
“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.” — Jason Fried Actions Copy Share Image
“When you treat people like children, you get children’s work.” — Jason Fried Children Copy Share Image
“A business without a path to profit isn’t a business, it’s a hobby.” — Jason Fried Business Copy Share Image
“Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are… — Jason Fried Argument Copy Share Image
“If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough. (And you’re probably boring, too.)” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.” — Jason Fried Clear thinking Copy Share Image
Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually. — Jason Fried Beginners Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed” — Jason Fried Business Copy Share Image
“Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“As Sir Richard Branson commented in his ode to working remotely: “To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“Release yourself from the 9am-to-5pm mentality. It might take a bit of time and practice to get the hang of working asynchronously… — Jason Fried Time Copy Share Image
“When you treat people like children, you get children’s work. Yet that’s exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their… — Jason Fried Children Copy Share Image
“Southwest—unlike most other airlines, which fly multiple aircraft models—flies only Boeing 737s. As a result, every Southwest pilot, flight attendant, and ground-crew… — Jason Fried Flight attendant Copy Share Image
“That’s the great irony of letting passionate people work from home. A manager’s natural instinct is to worry about his workers not… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“If you're opening a hot dog stand, you could worry about the condiments, the cart, the name, the decoration. But the first… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“One of the worst ways is the non-apology apology, which sounds like an apology but doesn’t really accept any blame. For example,… — Jason Fried Apology Copy Share Image
“Teach and you'll form a bond you just don't get from traditional marketing tactics. Buying people's attention with a magazine or online… — Jason Fried Customer Copy Share Image
“If someone sends out a resumé to three hundred companies, that’s a huge red flag right there. There’s no way that applicant… — Jason Fried Business Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is that you shouldn’t hire people you don’t trust, or work for bosses who don’t trust you. If you’re… — Jason Fried Bottom line Copy Share Image
“That’s one of the key challenges of remote work: keeping everyone’s outlook healthy and happy. That task is insurmountable if you’ve stacked… — Jason Fried Best intentions Copy Share Image
“Draw a line in the sand As you get going, keep in mind why you’re doing what you’re doing. Great businesses have… — Jason Fried Marketing Copy Share Image
“Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.” — Jason Fried Art making Copy Share Image
“If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no. — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“In this world very few leaps of progress arrive exclusively as benefits” — Jason Fried Growth Copy Share Image
“Ideas are cheap and plentiful. The original pitch idea is such a small part of a business that it’s almost negligible. The… — Jason Fried Pitch Copy Share Image
“Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is already home because she figured… — Jason Fried Hero Copy Share Image
“If you let them, humans have an amazing power to live up to your high expectations of reasonableness and responsibility.” — Jason Fried High expectations Copy Share Image
