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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Nancy Reagan actually took some movies that she didn't want to take because they were [with Ronald Reagan] really strapped for cash.
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Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.
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And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.
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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.