Jason Fried Quotes

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

The Panda mission really speaks to our philosophy. It is, 'Deliver exceptional Asian dining experiences by building an organization where people are inspired to better their lives.' I'm talking about everyone who works at Panda. They're inspired to better their own lives.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

It is important that you appreciate that the workplace must be a place of empowerment, but the empowerment must not only be connected to the job that you do.

I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first.

I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.

We would rather have our employees running our business.

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.