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• In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

  Eric Ries

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Successful

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• The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard.

  Eric Ries

  Mistake, Zuckerberg, People

  "Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries’ Radical New Theory". Interview with Carlye Adler, www.wired.com. April 30. 2011.

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• Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

  Eric Ries

  Busy, Disaster, Company

  "Interview: Eric Ries, Author Of The Lean Startup". Interview with Olivia Solon, www.wired.com. January 17, 2012.

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• We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

  Eric Ries

  Focus, Needs, Kind

  "Interview: Eric Ries, Author Of The Lean Startup". Interview with Olivia Solon, www.wired.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

  Eric Ries

  Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Building

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• 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.

  Eric Ries

  Numbers, Support, Entrepreneur

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• When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Animal, Land, Vaccines

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• I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.

  Kid Rock

  Jobs, Thinking, Apples

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• Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

  Will Rogers

  Advertising, Advertisement Negative, Improving

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Eggs, Together

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• Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Happiness, Success, Happy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Usa, Goal, United States

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.86, Best Books on

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• Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Activity, Prunes

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mind, Body, Vulnerable

  "The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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• I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Tunnels, Light

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• Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

  Jerry Saltz

  Eye, Psychics, Creating

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• The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, White

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• Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Judging, Evil

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• If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

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• In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down.

  Howard Schultz

  Lying, Exercise, Years

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• Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

  Haile Selassie

  Events, Becoming, Problem

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, People, World

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• Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  People, Favorite Places, Tools

  "Kimora Lee Simmons Dishes About Online Shopping, Her Favorite Things to Buy, and Hypothetical Hoarding" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. April 9, 2012.

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