Eric Ries Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Quotes about: Entrepreneurship

• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  Eric Ries

  Country, Jobs, America

• I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

  Eric Ries

  Believe, Careers, Firsts

• 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.

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  Mistake, Zuckerberg, People

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

• Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

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  Odds, Opposites, People

• Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

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  Creating, Kind, Entrepreneurship

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.35, Crown Business

• 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, that's not how it works.

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  Educational, Hard Work, People

• 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.

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  Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Building

• You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

  Eric Ries

  Perseverance, Keys, People

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