Eric Ries Quotes

The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.

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• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Relationships
  • Carry
  • Ending

• I spent ten years riding motorcycles.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Years
  • Riding
  • Spent

• Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • I Wish

• Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Art
  • Journalism

• For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Just
  • Retirement

• I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Everything
  • Someone

• In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Jews
  • Jew
  • Defending

• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?

  

  Alexander Pope

• Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Country
  • Powerful

• Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Game

• The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Different
  • Game
  • Baseball

• As a citizen of the United States, I am ready, willing, and able to bear arms for this country.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • Country

• I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Business
  • Friendship

• I really don't go to any parties.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.

• My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

  

  Philip Emeagwali
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Focus

• Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Democracy
  • Balance

• A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Facts

• More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

  

  Ben Parr
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

  

  Jeff Raikes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

  

  Brent Spiner
  • Business

• The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Business