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

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.

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.

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.

The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.

A goal is not always meant to be reached it often serves simply as something to aim at.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel.

It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.

A movie needs to have a must-see quality among the people you are targeting. Also, make movies at a responsible budget so that if you attract your core audience, and they show up in the first few weekends, the economics will work.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.

The wrong person isnt breaking their back to make you happy. So stop breaking your back for them.

I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a dork, fat, so for me it's really weird. I became famous in Australia when I was 18, and I was still a little bit chubby.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.

Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.

Without teacher appreciation there can't be any student progress.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

I don't quite know what an auteur is.

I've got an allergy to looking too neat.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.