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.

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

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.

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 classical music world is so snobbish.

Giraffes are fairytale animals almost heraldic as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces huge eyes very sensitive nostrils and oh blue tongues

While laziness comes in many forms, it usually has one direct effect. And that's that nothing gets accomplished.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.

The picture was of me, and I sent it.

There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and don't balk them if you can help it.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'.

It is better to be safe than sorry.

Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we all have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn’t predestine anything. We create our own causes and Karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.

Sometimes I cant see myself when Im with you. I can only just see you.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.

I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.