Jason Fried Quotes

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

I see a society learning new ways as a baby learns to walk. He stands up, falls, stands again, falls and bumps his nose, cries, and tries again—and eventually walks. Some of the critics now sounding off about the Great Society would stop the baby after his first fall and say, "That'll teach you. Stick to crawling.

I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.

I had a lot of success for many years, and the critics had been so kind. Sometimes it's good to get cut down to size a little bit.

There's people out there, Canadians out there, that have high expectations for me, but I mean, I'm still a kid, still trying to learn the game. I'm just trying to develop my skills as much as possible.

Sometimes, growth isn't always equal to success. You may fall forward and continue to make some mistakes, but it's all about growth and really finding the lessons that needs to be learned in order to get to the next level.

The more and more I play, I learn from each game. I try not to make the same mistake I made last game.

Coach Dunleavy has done a great job of humbling me, letting me go out there and make mistakes and I've got a great feel for the game right now.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

We're all works in progress and we'll all keep growing.

I love the criticism because if there was no criticism then what can you work on and what can you get better at?

You learn from the bad games and the bad tours. And, when things are going well, you think about that and you make the most of it. You don't get lazy; you don't rest on your laurels.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

Valid criticism does you a favor.

As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.