The Lean Startup Quotes

#1. I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.

Todd Park

#2. The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.

Eric Ries

#3. I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

Jon Oringer

#4. HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

Eric Ries

#5. We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

Joel Spolsky

#7. Life's too short to build something nobody wants.

Ash Maurya

#8. I will learn by screwing up.

Greg Bear

#9. We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#10. The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

Eric Ries

#11. Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

Todd Park

#12. The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became

Donald G. Reinertsen

#13. Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

Todd Park

#14. Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.

Eric Ries

#15. You don't learn through sales calls, it's not customer validation.

Jason Cohen

#16. The Lean Startup works only if we are able to build an organization as adaptable and fast as the challenges it faces. This

Eric Ries

#17. In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it

Beth Comstock

#18. I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent.

Todd Park

#19. The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

Eric Ries