Eric Ries Quotes
The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.
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So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
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I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
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Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.
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If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science fiction. The only thing that'll turn a story with a rocketship in it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.
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The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.
