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If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.
— Jason Fried
Failure is not a prerequisite for success.
— Jason Fried
Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.
— Jason Fried
Evolution doesn't linger on past failures, it's always building upon what worked. So should you.
— Jason Fried
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. And remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.
— Jason Fried
Third, show them work often. This is the best way to chip away at a client's natural situational anxiety. Look, they're paying you big bucks for your work, and it's totally natural for them to begin feeling anxious the moment they send you the deposit. So show them what they're paying for.
— Jason Fried
Say no by default If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD It
— Jason Fried
Another common misconception: You need to learn from your mistakes. What do you really learn from mistakes? You might learn what not to do again, but how valuable is that? You still don't know what you should do next. Contrast that with learning from your successes.
— Jason Fried
The solution: Break the big thing into smaller things. The smaller it is, the easier it is to estimate. You're probably still going to get it wrong, but you'll be a lot less wrong than if you estimated a big project. If something takes twice as long as you expected, better to have it be a small project that's a couple weeks over rather than a long one that's a couple months over. Keep breaking your time frames down into
— Jason Fried
If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
— Dr. Seuss