David Heinemeier Hansson Quotes

• Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, Overnight Success, Has Beens

  "Overnight Success Does Not Exist". ecorner.stanford.edu. January 20, 2010.

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• 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

  Secret, Needs, Stuff

  DHH @dhh, twitter.com. August 29, 2013.

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• If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Black And White, Ideas, Ifs

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• You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Half, Kick Ass, Kicks

  David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.70, Random House

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• Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Irrational Fear, Ugly, Conclusion

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• Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, Worry, Use

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• It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, Twenties, Program

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• 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

  Essence, Simplicity, Desire

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• When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Light, Ideas, Sparks

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• Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, People, Half

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• There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  World, Cash, Realizing

  "37signals" with Matt Linderman, 37signals.com. May 2011.

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• Before you know it, you're half-way done with your idea and you've accidentally learned how to do it too. In short, you start with little bit of something real and make it tick. Then you make it tock.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Real, Ideas, Done

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• 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

  Moving, Mean, Details

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• 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

  Good Day, Fighting, Thinking

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• 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

  Magic, Three, Fifty

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• A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Departed, Doe, Venture Capitalists

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