Eric Ries Quotes
Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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Wrestling is something that nothing else can replace for me.
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What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
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Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.
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Has anyone actually asked the customer if they want to have something available directly after the show? You hear that three bags are going to be released tomorrow in five shops, so you produce 15 bags. How many customers are you going to satisfy with that? Fifteen!
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
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I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!
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Friends would not say I'm a laid-back person by any means.
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For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.
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I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
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Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
