Book Titles

ReWork

By David Heinemeier Hansson, James Fried

Year Published: 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0307463746
Categories: Entrepreneurship, Success, Work

111 Quotes Found

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Don’t make up problems you don’t have yet. It’s not a problem until it’s a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

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Optimize for now and worry about the future later.

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The ability to change course is one of the biggest advantages of being small. Compared with larger competitors, you’re way more capable of making quick, sweeping changes. Big companies just can’t move that fast.

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Cut the crap and you’ll find that people are waiting to do great work. They just need to be given a chance.

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Rockstar environments develop out of trust, autonomy, and responsibility. They’re a result of giving people the privacy, workspace, and tools they deserve.

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Great environments show respect for the people who do the work and how they do it.

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Look at the costs and you quickly realize that failing to trust your employees is awfully expensive.

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You shouldn’t expect the job to be someone’s entire life – at least not if you want to keep them around for a long time.

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When you write to a specific target you’re a lot more likely to hit the mark.

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If you want to do something, you’ve got to do it now. You can’t put it on a shelf and wait two months to get around to it. You can’t just say you’ll do it later. Later, you won’t be pumped up about it anymore.

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