Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

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

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

Reading is good, action is better.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Country music belongs to America.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade