Eric Ries Quotes
Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too few for a sample. But if all 10 refused a product, why is that not enough? If you want 100, 1,000 or a million customers, you first have to get 10.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too few for a sample. But if all 10 refused a product, why is that not enough? If you want 100, 1,000 or a million customers, you first have to get 10.
