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.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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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.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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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.
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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.
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I'm retired from the daredevil business.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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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.
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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Aenea smiled but her eyes still glistened. 'Humans have been waiting for Jesus and Yahweh and E. T. to save their asses since before they covered those asses with bearskins and came out of the cave,' she said. 'They’ll have to keep waiting. This is our business...our fight...and we have to take care of it ourselves.'
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I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.
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Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.'
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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.
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'You look older, son.''Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.'
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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
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I'm a communicator.
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I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.
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Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
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It was the names of these four men that reminded me why playing for the Blues is as good as it gets in the National Hockey League.
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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.
