Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

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 overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

Don’t let less-than-perfect circumstances keep you from trusting God.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

They look right. And you move left.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody's compensating for his small government.