"If you cannot fail, you cannot learn."

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Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.50, Crown Business

Eric Ries

#Failing Quotes

“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
“In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.”

Source : "Lucifer's Hammer". Book by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, 1977.
“The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'”
“No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.”

Source : James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.48, Pluto Press
“You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.”

Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company
“A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.”
“Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.”
“Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.”

Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 22, 2012

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