The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

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.

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.

A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

How come dog and dog owner are so alike?

Jesus became a God and reached His great state of under-standing through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths and universal laws.

Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

When Jesus wept, the falling tear in mercy flowed beyond all bound; when Jesus groaned, a trembling fear seized all the guilty world around.