If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

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.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

I love Veep so I felt like there was a lot I could bring to it.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.

Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.