Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

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.

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.

We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.

We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.