Eric Ries Quotes

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Soldiers

• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Long
  • Today

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffering

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Violence
  • Feel

• A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Internet

• Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be O.K.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Great
  • Silly

• When do we reach a point where people become responsible for their own actions?

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People

• I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People

• People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • People
  • Prayer

• The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • May
  • American

• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Sweet
  • Flying
  • Autumn

• I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

  

  Alan Greenspan

• We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

  

  Anthony Michael Hall
  • Up
  • Hand

• In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.

  

  Eric Ries
  • People
  • Problem
  • Crisis