Jason Fried Quotes

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Figure out who you are.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.