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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Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there’s no glamorous work.

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…build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

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When good enough gets the job done, go for it… And remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.

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If you aren’t motivated by what you’re working on, it won’t be very good.

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The longer something takes, the less likely it is that you’re going to finish it.

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When there’s something new to announce every two weeks, you energize your team and give your customers something to be excited about.

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People automatically associate quitting with failure, but sometimes that’s exactly what you should do.

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What distinguishes people who are ten times more effective than the norm is not that they work ten times as hard; it’s that they use their creativity to come up with solutions that require one-tenth of the effort.

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We’re all terrible estimators. We think we can guess how long something will take, when we really have no idea.

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Long lists are guilt trips. The longer the list of unfinished items, the worse you feel about it. At a certain point, you just stop looking at it because it makes you feel bad.

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