Eric Ries Quotes

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• We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
• As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of…
• At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more…
• Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally…
• Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out…
• I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out.…
• If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you…
• Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing…
• Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy…
• Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste…
• Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is…
• The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not…
• The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders…
• The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial…
• There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance…
• There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry…
• When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately…
• You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We…
• The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.
• A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth…

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