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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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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I may not stay in Russia all the time but I'm still based in Volgograd and I don't have plans to move abroad permanently, at least for now.
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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
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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.