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.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there.

Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them and sometimes its good just knowing they are there.

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

When selecting businesses, I first have to be enticed by the product or the industry they are in. Then I look for passion. If a company has these two qualifiers, I go for it.

The Guess girl always combines sensuality with class. She's sexy and voluptuous, but not in a vulgar or cheesy way. Over the years, whether it was when I first saw Laetitia Casta, Eva Herzigova, or Anna Nicole Smith, the common thread when choosing the next Guess girl was an instant feeling in my stomach that she was the one.

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

It don't matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I'm going to fight like heavyweight champions do.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

I want to be remembered as the greatest quarterback who ever played. You have to go out and prove it first, and then you have to go out and work hard.

As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change.

Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who walked in to your life, said "I'm here for you," and PROVED it.

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

Regular temple attendance is one of the simplest ways you can bless those who are waiting in the spirit world. If you live near a temple, partake of the opportunity to go often and regularly.

How sweet to be a cloud. Floating in the blue

Best Friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.

I'm not a sheep.