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.

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.

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.

Reading is good, action is better.

How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.

This little girl's grown up by now, " she said.Almost.Not quite.I wish you all a long and happy life.

There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!

I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

What God expects us to attempt, He also enables us to achieve.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

People in misery is what most important in art.