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Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer anything else is waste. – Eric Ries

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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

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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

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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

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My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. – Georg Solti

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly. – Andy Warhol

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I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking whats universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. – Laura Linney

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I feel like that Im learning all the time. Im learning from new artists, from established artists… every time I listen to 70s rock n roll records, Im learning. And I think that Im just now starting to get a hold on what I do. – Tim McGraw

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