Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

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.

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

Happiness is like a cake: have too much of it and you get sick of it.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.