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Time Quotes by Eric Ries
- If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
- The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment:…
- The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might…
- A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only…
- Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a…
- By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.
- Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually…
- What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on…
- Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.
- Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would…
- Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following…
- I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Time Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud