The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

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.

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.

Getting married is the most fun you can have in life. Being married sucks

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.