Who is David Heinemeier Hansson?
David Heinemeier Hansson is a programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder of Basecamp, and the best-selling author of “Getting Real” and “Remote: Office Not Required.”
What are some of DHH’s best quotes?
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
- “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
- “You can have an idea at 9am and have a product by lunchtime, but that doesn’t mean it was a good idea at 9am.”
- “I think it’s important to have a sense of perspective about how much impact you actually have in the world. You can easily delude yourself into thinking that you’re more influential than you are.”
- “Most people don’t do great work because they don’t love their work. They do it for other reasons. Money, prestige, power, control—those are the wrong reasons to do something. If you want to do something great, you have to find a way to love it so much that you can’t imagine doing anything else.”
- “The biggest challenge isn’t always the work itself, but maintaining your enthusiasm for the work over a long period of time. It’s easy to get excited about a new project, but it’s hard to stay excited about the same project day in and day out for months or years on end.”
- “Most people don’t achieve great things because they never take the time to think about what they want to do with their lives. They go to school, get a job, and just work on whatever comes their way. But that’s not how you achieve something great. You have to know where you’re going before you can get there.”
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
- “It’s important to be able to work on things that you love, but it’s also important to be able to walk away from them if you need to. If you get too attached to your work, you’ll start to resent it if things don’t go the way you want them to. You have to be able to let go of your work and walk away from it if necessary.”
