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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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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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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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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If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'
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In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.
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I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
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If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
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I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.
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I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.
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The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.
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If we can get to that 3 percent grow, it is $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion worth of more government revenues. It's 12 million additional jobs. And those are 12 million jobs paying into Medicare, 12 million jobs paying into Social Security. Growth really is what's driving all of this and growth is what our focus is, which is why we're willing to accept increased short-term deficits in exchange for that long-term payoff.
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A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.
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I was told by six doctors over six days that they could start me on full-body chemotherapy. And I said, "If you know where I'm coming from, I'd rather die."
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Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
