Steve Blank Quotes
Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
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We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.
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It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.
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For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
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Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.
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Be wary, be wary, of the prosecutor who feels it necessary to deceive the court.
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In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.
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I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.
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cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.
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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
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An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool...
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Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.
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Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.