207 Quotes by Jason Fried

Plus, if you’re a copycat, you can never keep up. You’re always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that’s already behind the times—just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That’s no way to live.

Aprendre dels errors està sobrevalorat

Workaholics miss the point, too. They try to fix problems by throwing sheer hours at them. They try to make up for intellectual laziness with brute force. This results in inelegant solutions.

If you build software, every error message is marketing

If you're opening a hot dog stand, you could worry about the condiments, the cart, the name, the decoration. But the first thing you should worry aout is the hot dog. The hot dogs are the epicenter. Everything else is secondary.

It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours.

Press Releases are spam

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch.

Projections are just bullshit. They’re just guesses.