Top 18 Heinemeier Hansson Quotes
#2. Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#3. Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#4. Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#6. Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#7. There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#8. If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?
David Heinemeier Hansson
#10. One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day's work?'
David Heinemeier Hansson
#11. Kiernan. I had a sudden memory of the small, scuffed-up shoe I'd seen just before I fell. He must have snatched the bracelet when the crowd gathered around me. If I managed to get out, I resolved to give him every last penny I had and cover his little face with kisses.
Rysa Walker
#12. My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that's amazing," he explains. "It's certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#13. Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.
Paul Brown
#14. The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#16. Consider this: you are today what you believed about yourself yesterday. And you will be tomorrow what you believe about yourself right now.
Joel Osteen
#17. This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.
Patrick Rothfuss
#18. Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.
Kate Winslet
