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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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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When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and we're stuck at zero, that's one we don't know so much about - or we know about it that it's bad.
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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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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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We had grown too fast at PayPal. Our operating expenses had grown too fast... Growth covers a lot of sin. We want to grow without sin.
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The hand is man's most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding.
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Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
