My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

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.

In the end, Nora, there’s only time. All we have is time…and even if this wasn’t happening, we still don’t ever have much…no one does. We only have the moment we’re in. We have right now.

This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.