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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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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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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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.
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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.