If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

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.

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.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

But I hope you don’t feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache. Remember, you always will be.

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.