Jason Fried Quotes

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow. You're always going to stay the same.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

I know that with most companies that have a lot of success, it tends to throw you off, and you can become more conservative. One of our questions is, How do we keep from being pulled into conservatism because we're afraid of not being successful again?

I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

In a business, you've got to move on.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

There is no such thing as standing still.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.