We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

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.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.

Either you're a hater or a lover.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.

Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!