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.

Eric Ries

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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

• 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.'

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• 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'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Business
  • History
  • Famous

• 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

• We need policies that will allow U.S. companies to invest in their business, innovate for the future, and create U.S. jobs.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Business
  • Future

• In wrestling, when I was in high school, my coach said you should be able to hit every single move from any position. So, arm drag to double-leg, snap-down to double-leg. You should be able to hit a move from anywhere, so with my armbar, I can essentially hit it from any position because it's my favorite submission.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Single

• I wasn't instructed to do any special training for 'Hawkgirl,' but I had started boxing a few weeks prior and stuck with that for several months leading up to the start of production.

  

  Ciara Renee
  • Up
  • Training
  • Boxing

• 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