"Our educational system is not preparing people for……" — Eric Ries
"Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works."
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85 Quotes by Eric Ries
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If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens -…
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If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
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Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks…
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As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort…
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The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
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We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
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Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.
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Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
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Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
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The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us…
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When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame…
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The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no…
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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