The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

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.

Reading is good, action is better.

With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.

Thoughts are roots

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault."

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).