Eric Ries Quotes
Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.
Quotes to Explore
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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One would not die from my cooking, but I am not sure one would survive my driving.
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
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To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.
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I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.
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Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
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Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.
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Ideas come from curiosity.
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If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.
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You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.
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Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.
