207 Quotes by Jason Fried

A large user base helps shield us from things we can't control. You can spend years catering to a major corporation, for example, only to see your contact there move on.

Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

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.

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

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.

To say that the grocery business is cutthroat would be a major understatement.

What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.