When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.

Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and restore us to a state of greater purity.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

Ethel and Frances found a means for consolation together: travel.

No matter how bad that you think things are going in your life, some people would still consider your state of living a blessing compared to theirs.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

We must have Sunni-Arabs involved in this coalition [against ISIS]. We must commit leadership, strength, support and resolve.

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.