Jason Fried Quotes

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

This is the business of football and nothing is guaranteed to you as a player, coach or anybody else. They don't have to give you the money. They don't have to give you a longterm contract.

Uncertainty is bad for business.

Managing risk is a key variable, frankly, all aspects of life, business is just one of them, and one of the things that most people do in terms of managing risk, that's actually bad thinking, is they think they can manage risk to zero. Everything has some risk to it. You know, you drive your car down the street, a drunk driver may hit you. So what you're doing is you're actually trying to get to an acceptable level of risk.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

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

The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.