The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

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.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

The sun looks different from when it rises to when it sets.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.