Quotes from Jason Fried

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

if you can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager.

Recuerda, la moda es pasajera. Cuando pones el énfasis en cualidades permanentes, estás incorporando características que nunca pasan.

If you encourage people to share, then sharing will be built into your culture. If you reward trust, then trust will be built in. If you treat customers right, then treating

La esencia de tu negocio debería pivotar sobre todo aquello que no cambia. Sobre cosas que la gente quiere hoy y seguirá pidiendo dentro de diez años.

Algunas veces dejar lo que estás haciendo es la decisión adecuada, incluso si para entonces ya le has dedicado mucho esfuerzo. No insistas en malgastar un tiempo necesario en un trabajo que no lo es.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that's not on the walls. Someone says no. A curator is involved, making conscious decisions about what should stay and what should go. There's an editing process. There's a lot more stuff off the walls than on the walls. The best is a sub-sub-subset of all the possibilities.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator. Stick to what's truly essential. Pare things down until you're left with only the most important stuff. Then do it again. You can always add stuff back in later if you need to.

You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of "Done.

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses. Start referring to your business plans as business guesses, your financial plans as financial guesses, and your strategic plans as strategic guesses. Now you can stop worrying about them as much. They just aren't worth the stress.

When you let customers outgrow you, you'll most likely wind up with a product that's basic—and that's fine. Small, simple, basic needs are constant. There's an endless supply of customers who need exactly that.

Sometimes you need to say, "We're going in a new direction because that's what makes sense today.

A strong stand is how you attract superfans. They point to you and defend you. And they spread the word further, wider, and more passionately than any advertising could. Strong opinions aren't free. You'll turn some people off. They'll accuse you of being arrogant and aloof. That's life. For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you.

Usa lo que ya tengas a mano o lo que puedas conseguir por poco dinero. Y ponte en marcha. El equipo no es lo relevante. Lo relevante es sacarle el máximo partido a lo que tengas. Tu arte está en tus dedos.

Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.

Your goal is to make sure your product stays right for you. You're the one who has to believe in it most. That way, you can say, "I think you'll love it because I love it.

When things aren't working, the natural inclination is to throw more at the problem. More people, time, and money. All that ends up doing is making the problem bigger. The right way to go is the opposite direction: Cut back.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while

A lot of companies focus on the next big thing. They latch on to what's hot and new. They follow the latest trends and technology. That's a fool's path. You start focusing on fashion instead of substance. You start paying attention to things that are constantly changing instead of things that last.

You can't paint over a bad experience with good advertising or marketing.

When you get in that flow of making decision after decision, you build momentum and boost morale. Decisions are progress.

If you let them, humans have an amazing power to live up to your high expectations of reasonableness and responsibility.

To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision."‡

Stop saying ASAP. We get it. It's implied. Everyone wants things done as soon as they can be done.