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Inspirational Quotes by Eric Ries
- If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
- The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
- We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
- Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
- If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.
- At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.
- In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.
- Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.
- If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.
- By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.
- Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.
- Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up
- The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.
- A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.
- New Customers come from the action of past customers
- Reading is good, action is better.
- Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.
- The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.
- If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.
- The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.
- It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come…
- Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento