Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an A pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, thats not how it works. – Eric Ries
You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people dont see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom. – Eric Ries
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. – Eric Ries
Except in very narrow cases, where theres breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you cant out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, youre toast anyway. – Eric Ries
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. – Harry Oppenheimer