Eric Ries quote: "Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't."

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So...
ERIC RIES

When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the b...
ERIC RIES

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot...
ERIC RIES

In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100...
ERIC RIES

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of...
ERIC RIES

I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what ...
ERIC RIES

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile...
ERIC RIES

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepre...
ERIC RIES

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gende...
ERIC RIES

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are abl...
ERIC RIES

It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose o...
ERIC RIES

The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involve...
ERIC RIES

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered b...
ERIC RIES

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being i...
ERIC RIES

You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system ...
ERIC RIES

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. S...
ERIC RIES

As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that...
ERIC RIES

I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in...
ERIC RIES

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts an...
ERIC RIES

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions...
ERIC RIES

The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality product...
ERIC RIES

I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the &#...
ERIC RIES

People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily t...
ERIC RIES

Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover ...
ERIC RIES

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

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and...
ERIC RIES

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to d...
ERIC RIES

The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste les...
ERIC RIES

Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too f...
ERIC RIES

We have some great senior leadership and real exciting newcomers. We look to be pretty strong in som...
ERIC RIES

It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. Peo...
ERIC RIES

We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market ...
ERIC RIES

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that...
ERIC RIES

She is the Donald Trump of the younger generation,
AL RIES

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an iv...
AL RIES

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
AL RIES

It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company t...
AL RIES

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated soci...
AL RIES

Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and ...
AL RIES

He said, 'Yeah, let's do it,' ... Then he said, 'You should ask Keith [Richards].' I didn't want to ...
TIM RIES

They already, in a sense, lease space on their home page to others, such as Drugstore.com and Pets.c...
DAN RIES

With the Stones, it's not like you're a side saxophone player,
TIM RIES

Големите компании виждат нещата такива, кавито са. Пре�...
AL RIES

They've got to show the Street and they've got to do it themselves, to get the stock going again, th...
DAN RIES

They really layered in a whole lot more infrastructure, so now they have to be even larger to break ...
DAN RIES

You really need someone who's got a feel for the great Australian middle class and what they want to...
IVOR RIES

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID

If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL

I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT

When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA

I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT

First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU

I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW

If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER

I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN

All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET

My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK

Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON

Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER

Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU

When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER

Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW

One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

ERIC HOFFER

Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW

Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER

Remembering is something God asks us to do over �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER

Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER

The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN

I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL

The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE

It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER

The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON

If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER

The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER

There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER

Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER

Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW

The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER

The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

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Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

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