If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

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.

Peace is always pleasant, always kind.

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.

Coincidence is a wonderful thing.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.