Steve Blank Quotes
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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'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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Moral solipsism.
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I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
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I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.
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Coming from a Haitian-American home, I thought it was necessary to give back to the country in which my parents were raised. That is why I believe in Project PlayWorld's efforts to to provide secure playing spaces for the children of Haiti with the Live Civil Playground.
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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.
