Eric Ries

Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are crazy.

Eric Ries

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

Eric Ries

Except in very narrow cases, where there’s breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

Eric Ries

I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you’d succeed. Then I lived the ‘Social Network’ movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

Eric Ries

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

Eric Ries

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

Eric Ries

If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

Eric Ries

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.

Eric Ries

It doesn’t matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

Eric Ries

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Eric Ries