Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

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.

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point of view and they should write stuff that they know.

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

What's the problem you solve? Solve it for one person. Create a system to do it without you. Duplicate.