List of Eric Ries Quotes

Entrepreneurs Can't Forecast Accurately, Because They Are Trying Something Fundamentally New. So They Will Often Be Laughably Behind Plan - And On The Brink Of Success.

I Asked All Of Our Recruiters To Give Me All Resumes Of Prospective Employees With Their Name, Gender, Place Of Origin, And Age Blacked Out. This Simple Change Shocked Me, Because I Found Myself Interviewing Different-looking Candidates - Even Though I Was 100% Convinced That I Was Not Being Biased In My Resume Selection Process.

Entrepreneurs Always Pitch Their Idea As 'the X Of Y,' So This Is Going To Be 'the Microsoft Of Food.' And Yet Disruptive Innovations Usually Don't Have That Character. Most Of The Time, If Something Seems Like A Good Idea, It Probably Isn't.

At Imvu, We Opened Up Our Board Meetings To The Whole Company.

The United States Is Locked In A New Arms Race For That Most Precious Resource - The Future Entrepreneurs Upon Whom Economic Growth Depends. Substantial Research Shows That Immigrants Play A Key Role In American Job Creation.

There Is Much That Public Policy Can Do To Support American Entrepreneurs. Health Insurance Reform Will Make It Easier For Entrepreneurs To Take A Chance On A New Business Without Putting Their Family's Health At Risk. Tort Reform Will Make It Easier To Take Prudent Risks On New Products In A Number Of Sectors.

You Know How People Always Talk About How Vision Is The Key To Entrepreneurship And Perseverance And Really Seeing What Other People Don't See? We Can Actually Redeem A Fair Amount Of That Folk Wisdom.

If The Plan Is To See What Happens, A Team Is Guaranteed To Succeed - At Seeing What Happens - But Won't Necessarily Gain Validated Learning - If You Cannot Fail, You Cannot Learn.

Science And Vision Are Not Opposites Or Even At Odds. They Need Each Other. I Sometimes Hear Other Startup Folks Say Something Along The Lines Of: 'if Entrepreneurship Was A Science, Then Anyone Could Do It.' I'd Like To Point Out That Even Science Is A Science, And Still Very Few People Can Do It, Let Alone Do It Well.

If We Stopped Wasting People's Time, What Would They Do With It?

A Solid Process Lays The Foundation For A Healthy Culture, One Where Ideas Are Evaluated By Merit And Not By Job Title.

What If We Found Ourselves Building Something That Nobody Wanted? In That Case What Did It Matter If We Did It On Time And On Budget?