New Customers come from the action of past customers

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.

We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.

The focus is faith.

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living.

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

In democracy, people's verdict is always final and we all have to accept it with humility.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.