Jason Fried Quotes

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

We must strike a balance between speed and thoroughness, between the need for time frames and the avoidance of mistakes which will later cost us dearly.

You can have it all, but not all at once.

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

Getting all the things down game-management wise, that's what I want to excel at.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.