Speed is a life-or-death necessity for a startup, but quality should not be sacrificed in a bid to accelerate.

Startups need a specially designed form of management to cater to their very particular needs as fledgling companies.

Validated learning is the process by which employees can measure their output and success through experiential lessons. The more validated learning achieved, the more successful a startup can become.

The Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop is the steering mechanism by which a startup can drive toward its end goal.

Innovation accounting informs the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop that gives startups the information needed to decide when to persevere and when to pivot without being reactionary.

The ability to know when to continue on a path or to change direction is vital to the future of a startup.

Lean startup entrepreneurs cannot rely on hunches or assumptions. They must get out there and see what’s happening for themselves.

A lean startup employs a small-batch approach. Before embarking on a lengthy journey toward product development, the company leaders first test out smaller iterations to be sure that what they are creating is valuable.

Growth is sustainable when new customers are acquired from the actions of previous customers.

Intrapreneurs—entrepreneurs tasked with creating new products or ventures within an existing corporation—should also use the lean startup method.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

A sleepy mans eyes generally go to bed some time before he does.

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the 'second mile' and told us to go there. Why Because he wants to bless us, and he put all the blessings in the second mile.

I love apple juice.

It feels so good to be happy.

Rock and Roll is inclusive. It welcomes rockers of all races, religions, ages, ethnic backgrounds, alternative lifestyles.

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with failure.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.