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

• At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Good
  • Live

• A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

  

  Keith Miller
  • People
  • Reality
  • Spiritual

• There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Different
  • Focus
  • Deep

• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

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

  

  Eric Ries
  • Innovation
  • Managed
  • Decentralized