Quotes from Jason Fried

If I want to know something, I'll go find it. I don't want to be pulled to anything.

Leonard Koren, author of a book on wabi-sabi, gives this advice: Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry. Keep things clean and unencumbered but don't sterilize.

If you think a competitor sucks, say so. When you do that, you'll find that others who agree with you will rally to your side.

has no prospects of being either, then you don't just need a remote position—you need a new job. Only the office can be secure Companies often go to great lengths to make employees

Accounting is a department. Marketing isn't.

Audi takes on Lexus's automatic parking systems with ads that say Audi drivers know how to park their own cars.

When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution.

People get stoked by conflict. They take sides. Passions are ignited. And that's a good way to get people to take notice.

Defensive companies can't think ahead; they can only think behind. They don't lead; they follow.

In business, too many people obsess over tools, software tricks, scaling issues, fancy office space, lavish furniture, and other frivolities instead of what really matters. And what really matters is how to actually get customers and make money.

it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others.

los planes no son compatibles con la improvisación. Y tienes que ser capaz de improvisar. Tienes

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

Making a few vocal customers happy isn't worth it if it ruins the product for everyone else.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while first. By all means, have as many great ideas as you can. Get excited about them. Just don't act in the heat of the moment. Write them down and park them for a few days. Then, evaluate their actual priority with a calm mind.

These companies have realized that when you get into a real work environment, the truth comes out.

The bottom line is that you shouldn't hire people you don't trust, or work for bosses who don't trust you.

A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there. Each segment is filled with a conference call, a meeting, another meeting, or some other institutionalized unnecessary interruption.

Which features you choose to include or omit have a lot to do with less software too. Don't be afraid to say no to feature requests that are hard to do. Unless they're absolutely essential, save time/effort/confusion by leaving them out. Slow down too. Don't take action on an idea for a week and see if it still seems like a great idea after the initial buzz wears off. The extra marinading time will often help your brain come up with an easier solution.

Trabajar sin un plan puede dar miedo. Pero seguir a pies juntillas un plan que nada tiene que ver con la realidad da aún más miedo.

Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured rubber into the family waffle iron. That's how Nike's famous waffle sole was born.‡

Other people's failures are just that: other people's failures. If

distractions can actually serve a purpose. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, they warn us—when we feel ourselves regularly succumbing to them—that our work is not well defined, or our tasks are menial, or the whole project we're engaged in is fundamentally pointless.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.