Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.

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.

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

All labor has dignity.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

Luce didn't know how to pull away from Cam.

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.