"Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesnâ€™t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible."

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Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business

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“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”

Source : Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press
“You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.”

Source : "The Man Who Invented Hip Hop" by Zack O'Malley Greenburg, www.forbes.com. July 9, 2009.
“Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile.”

Source : "On Movies".
“There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.”
“I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.”
“Ive had about 140 albums released, and Ive done everything I wanted to do.”
“The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.”
“Within every brand is a product, but not every product is a brand.”

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