What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

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.

If she would just let herself go I would be there to catch her if she fell but she wasn't ready to take that step yet."Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

My fans expect me to be great and keep being great.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses

Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.