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

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.

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.

Today I'll fix the mistakes I madeyesterday and tomorrow I'll fix themistakes I made today

That goddam stunted, red-faced, big-cheeked, apple-cheeked, curlyheaded, midget assed, , google-eyed, undersized, grinning, buck-toothed rat!!" Yossarian sputtered.~ Catch-22

At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.