Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smart people. Corporate innovation needs a culture that matches and supports it.

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.

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

Congratulations to Donald Trump, the new president of the United States - and to the people of America, who are free.

Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.

I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.