Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions 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.

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

Sleep, Maya, " he murmured softly. "Sleep, my love, and I promise that I will come looking for you.

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.