Jason Fried Quotes

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

It is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.