Best 26 quotes of Jason Fried on MyQuotes

Customers don't just buy a product - they switch from something else. And customers don't just leave a product - they switch to something else

"Easy" is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

It's simple until you make it complicated.

Projections are just bullshit. They're just guesses.

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

The best feature of a product should really be the customer service.

The design is done when the problem goes away.

The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?

You don't need to win every medal to be successful.

Aprendre dels errors està sobrevalorat

Don't shy away from the fact that your product or service does less. Highlight it. Be proud of it. Sell it as aggressively as competitors sell their extensive feature lists.

If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position hire the best writer. it doesn't matter if the person is marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever, their writing skills will pay off. That's because being a good writer is about more than writing clear writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. great writers know how to communicate. they make things easy to understand. they can put themselves in someone else's shoes. they know what to omit. And those are qualities you want in any candidate. Writing is making a comeback all over our society... Writing is today's currency for good ideas.

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.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

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

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.

Press Releases are spam

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there’s no glamorous work. You don’t get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

That would never work in the real world." You hear it all the time when you tell people about a fresh idea. This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient. Scratch the surface and you'll find these "real world" inhabitants are filled with pessimism and despair. They expect fresh concepts to fail. They assume society isn't ready for or capable of change. Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you're hopeful and ambitious, they'll try to convince you your ideas are impossible. They'll say you're wasting your time. Don't believe them. That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.