Jason Fried Quotes

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The days you work are the best days.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I think it's nice to work and then have success.

If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

I like it when hard work pays off.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

I stay busy, and it feels good.

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.

I think you should never really feel like you've 'made it.'

I'm living out my dreams every day.