207 Quotes by Jason Fried

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

I'd love to see more businesses take this approach - intentionally rightsizing themselves. Hit a number that feels good and say, 'Let's stick around here.'

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.

Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.

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

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.

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

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.

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.