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

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.

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

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

Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness!

I'm happy living in the countryside. We are 30 minutes away from Milan, so I can drive in for dinner and drive out. It's not a question of living in the country or in the city, it's really a question of living in a tight, close-knit clan that makes the difference.

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.

I've had a great experience in the fashion business.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.