Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.

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.

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

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.

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can’t afford medical care.

may be wiser to everything to see and understand what it left behind

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

I'm enjoying simplifying things.