Eric Ries Quotes
HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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I love having critics for breakfast.
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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I think what I bring to the table is a lot of heart, a lot of energy, and somebody that works hard. Somebody who hates to lose.
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I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.
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Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.
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You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.
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Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.
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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
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Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.
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Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.
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Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.
