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.

Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.

The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.

I want to be a mystery to you, untouchable, a star all to myself, a galaxy away from your starved fingers.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

I was happiest between the waves.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

I will do simple cleanses and have a day where I'm quiet and don't talk. I need to have this experience, especially after work has been really intense.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I don't believe that homosexuals really want to marry, most of them. They're all different, and some have different views.

It is the set of the sails not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles but dancing embellishes exercises and equalizes all the muscles at once.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

Stop counting crayons just draw pictures.

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.