Eric Ries Quotes

Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments which follow a three-step process: Build, measure, learn. A startup is … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

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• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Thought
  • Learn
  • Rome

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
  • Learn

• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Business
  • Chicago
  • Down

• I'm retired from the daredevil business.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Business
  • Retired
  • Daredevil

• It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Better
  • Start

• I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Business
  • Always
  • Theatre

• In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Business
  • Nature
  • You

• Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

  

  O. Henry
  • Family
  • Love
  • Art

• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Stock
  • Well

• I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • Great
  • Business

• Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Music
  • God
  • Business

• 'You look older, son.''Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Business
  • Universe
  • Son

• I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Life
  • Family
  • School

• I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • World
  • Family
  • Business

• The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

  

  Jay Samit
  • World
  • Work
  • Business

• You do learn from the things that you suffer. I made sure I took it all in. But instead of trying to hide that and put some fluffy fun record together, I went with how I felt.

  

  Chris Cagle
  • Learn
  • Suffer
  • Felt

• I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Learning
  • Internet

• I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

  

  Dean Devlin

• If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • True
  • Inspiration
  • Honestly

• Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments which follow a three-step process: Build, measure, learn. A startup is … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Business
  • Learn
  • Experiments