If you are a startup, you have read 37Signal’s opinions on business, productivity and building software. Here are some inspirational quotes from their latest book Rework. I took these insights from Dharmesh Shah’s onStartups blog. And put them together along with the index of essays in a downloadable PDF. Print this and stick it in a visible place!
I enjoyed reading Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s earlier book – Getting Real too. Of course, what worked for 37Signals (for Basecamp, Campfire, Ta-da list and their other products) may or may not work in your situation. Their advise is still valuable and worth pondering over for any startup / productivity aspirant.
- Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service.
- Writing a plan makes you feel in control of things you don’t actually control.
- Don’t sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see.
- Stuff that was impossible just a few years ago is simple today.
- Failure is not a prerequisite for success.
- Don’t make assumptions about how big you should be ahead of time.
- You have the most information when you’re doing something, not before you’ve done it.
- When you build what you need, you can assess quality directly instead of by proxy.
- Solving your own problem lets you fall in love with what you’re making.
- What you do matters, not what you think or say or plan.
- When you want something bad enough, you make the time.
- The perfect time to start something never arrives.
- Start a business, not a startup.
- You need a commitment strategy, not an exit strategy.
- Huge organizations talk instead of act, and meet instead of do.
- Build half a product, not a half-assed product.
- Getting to greatness starts by cutting out stuff that’s merely good.
- The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying.
- The big picture is all you should be worrying about in the beginning. Ignore the details.
- It’s the stuff you leave out that matters.
- Decide. You’re as likely to make a great call today as you are tomorrow.
- The longer it takes to develop, the less likely it is to launch.
- Focus on substance, not fashion. Focus on what won’t change.
- When good enough gets the job done, go for it.
- When you make tiny decisions, you can’t make big mistakes.
- Pour yourself into your product.
- You rarely regret saying no but you often regret saying yes.
- Instead of out-spending your competitors, out-teach them.
- Let customers look behind the curtain.
- Better your customers grow out of your product, than never grow into them.
- You can’t paint over a bad experience with good marketing.
- All companies have customers. Fortunate companies have audiences too.
- Don’t hire for pleasure; hire to kill pain.
- Leave the poetry in what you make, there is beauty in imperfection.
- Marketing is not a department, it’s the sum total of everything you do.
- Don’t make up problems you don’t have yet.
- A business without a path to profit is a hobby.
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