A biography for Jason Friedhasn’t been written yet.
“If yesterday was a good day's work, chances are you'll stay on a roll. And if you can stay on a roll, everything else will probably take care of itself - including not working from the moment you get up in the morning until you nod off to sleep.”
“A company gets better at the things it practices.”
“Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.”
“Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.The decisions you make today don't need to last forever. If circumstances change, your decisions CAN change. Decisions are temporary.Pay attention to today and worry about later when it gets here. Otherwise, you'll waste energy, time and money fixating on problems that may never materialize."~ An excerpt from the awesome book, "Rework”
“Since your company is the product that makes all of your other products, it should be the best product of all. When you begin to think of your company this way, you evaluate it differently. You ask different questions about it. You look at improving it constantly, rather than just accepting what it's become.”
“Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.”
“It's like when you're on hold and a recorded voice comes on telling you how much the company values you as a customer. Really? Then maybe you should hire some more support people so I don't have to wait thirty minutes to get help.”
“Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.”
“I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.”
“Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.”
“Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.”
“Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.”
“The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.”
“If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you of stale, soggy rice cakes: nearly calorie free, devoid of nutrition, and completely unsatisfying.”
“We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.”
“I've found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who has already peaked.”
“When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.”
“Lots of business owners spend their lives trying to land the whale - the single, massive, brand-name account that will fatten the top line and bestow instant credibility. But big customers make me nervous.”
“Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.”
“When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You see their eyes light up with excitement or darken with confusion. You learn things you would never find in a survey, database, or questionnaire. You learn why people buy.”