The World Motivation
We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.
“We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.”
— Jason Fried · Business
We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.
No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.
I'd love to see more businesses take this approach - intentionally rightsizing themselves. Hit a number that feels good and say, 'Let's stick around here.'
Who you work with is even more important than who you hang out with because you spend a lot more time with your workmates than your friends.
Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.