Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.

Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

Have I not told youdinosaurs were past glorythey extinct big time.

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

I want to say that I cannot be intimidated or stopped. In order to put an end to various attempts to get rid of me as a possible candidate, I want to say that I'm running for president.

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for