Steve Blank

"A startup is not a smaller version of a large company."

"A startup is a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model."

"The measure of a life is not time or money. It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. Your report card is whether you leave the world a better place."

"Money is the lifeblood of startups. You stay in business until you run out of it."

"Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime."

"The question is whether you'll tell your children that this decade was the beginning of a new dark age, or whether it was the time of something new and wonderful."

"Your brains have been rewired to process all this Net-based information. Your brains are dealing with the world in a different way than humans ever have. That kind of profound shift has occurred only …"

"A founder's skill is knowing how to recognize new patterns and to pivot on a dime. At times the pattern is noise, and the vision turns out to be a hallucination."