In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company.

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.

4. You hear his voice in a crowd more than any other.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on... parole. And lithium.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

I am down with the latest trends. And everyone knows, the thing on the streets is vampires. So I have been biting people on the neck.