Steve Blank Quotes
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
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Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
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I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or Eater and Daily Candy, also American, which are about where to go to eat.
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If we can find a way to keep floodwater in reserve and to use it when it's needed, it will be a double boon.
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Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
