Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. – Eric Ries
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
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
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