Eric Ries Quotes

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.

Eric Ries

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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• I often reread books I have written.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Books
  • Written
  • Often

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Race
  • Nation
  • Class

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Back
  • Finish
  • Throw

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • People
  • You
  • Solitude

• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Happy
  • Parents

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Play
  • Inside

• No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Books
  • Feedback
  • Confuses

• We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Truth

• I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

  

  Albert Pujols
  • Time
  • Power

• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Ocean
  • Swim

• My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.

  

  Lionel Sosa
  • Work
  • Great
  • Innovation

• A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Trying
  • Confidence
  • Risk

• Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Parents
  • Proud

• Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Innovation
  • Managed
  • Decentralized