Quote

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

Eric Ries

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eric Ries
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: September 22
Author
Entrepreneur
Writer
Employees
Employee
Requires
Kinds
Leadership
Creating
Experimentation
Conditions
Entrepreneurship
Kind
Enable

More quotes by Eric Ries

Image
The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations.
Eric Ries
Image
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
Eric Ries
Image
The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.
Eric Ries
Image
Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
Eric Ries
Image
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
Image
If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.
Eric Ries
Image
This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
Eric Ries
Image
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.
Eric Ries
Image
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.
Eric Ries
Image
The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.
Eric Ries
Image
Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
Eric Ries
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
Eric Ries
Image
In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.
Eric Ries
Image
Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.
Eric Ries
Image
What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.
Eric Ries
Image
A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
Eric Ries
Image
All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.
Eric Ries
Image
If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
Eric Ries