Eric Ries Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.

  Eric Ries

  Entrepreneur, Vision, Strategy

  Eric Ries (2017). “The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth”, p.108, Currency

• Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.

  Eric Ries

  Baby, Perseverance, Ebay

• There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

  Eric Ries

  Couple, Technology, Years

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

• Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.

  Eric Ries

  Order, Vision, Tools

• The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

  Eric Ries

  Goal, Vision, Experiments

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.51, Crown Business

• The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

  Eric Ries

  Ambition, Goal, Vision

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business

• 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

• 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.

  Eric Ries

  Odds, Opposites, People

• All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

  Eric Ries

  Innovation, Vision, Next

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.278, Crown Business

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin