Eric Ries Quotes

Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

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• Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Disaster

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Hair
  • Need
  • Products

• The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • You
  • Products
  • E-mail

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Up
  • Why
  • Clear

• That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • May
  • Wealth
  • Products

• I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Play
  • Sports

• Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Environment

• Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Disaster

• President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Way
  • President
  • Created

• I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Internet

• We did not effectively manage our licensing program, ... While we negotiated good deals, introduced great products in the marketplace, we failed to provide the retail marketing support and monitoring that was needed.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • Good
  • Great
  • Support

• This is a fulfillment of our vision of 'The Business Web,' enabling companies of any size to manage, organize and share all of their business information on demand.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Business
  • Vision
  • Companies

• The era of the traditional software 'load, update and upgrade' business and technology model is over, ... It is time for 'The Business Web.' ... Just as mainframe companies struggled for relevance in the client-server era, Microsoft finds itself in a worse position today, facing not just the obsolescence of a technology model, but a business model as well.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Time
  • Business
  • Today

• The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Chance
  • Disaster

• If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Demand
  • Products
  • Vendors

• People want to see that cable companies are already taking away market share in the phone business before the phone companies can take video share.

  

  David Joyce
  • People
  • Business
  • Market

• The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Leaving
  • Disaster
  • Ruins

• We are trying to find out if we can use the worms or their products to lesson the impact of allergies

  

  John Britton
  • Trying
  • Impact
  • Products

• Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Remember
  • Emotional

• The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Words

• Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

  

  Steve Waugh
  • Sports
  • Games
  • Coaching

• I'm open to meet any person; I think we can learn from one another.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Thinking
  • Persons

• Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Companies
  • Products
  • Disaster