The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.

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.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

Haters will say what they want, but their hate will never stop you from chasing your dream

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!