“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.” ThreeProcessStepsConditionsProductsCreatingOrganizationExtremesExperimentsUncertaintyOutcomesSomething NewDedicatedCreating Something Author:Eric Ries
“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.” SelfGovernmentPoliticsProductsCompetitionForgottenExtremesEnterpriseMinoritiesElitesFrustratedBureaucracyTaxationFree EnterpriseOppressive Governments Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.” RealAudienceTelevisionTvsProductsOriginalsExtremesAdvertisingSalespersonRetailers Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, the product of mind; and the other extreme, a strict materialist determinism, which says that mind and consciousness is a secondary phenomenon of the collision of matter.” ThinkingWayMindLooksTwoMatterPhilosophyRealityConsciousnessProductsIllusionExtremesObjectivesOne WayPhenomenonStrictIdealistDeterminismCollisionPhilosophicObjective Reality Author:Edgar Mitchell
“We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate them are in essence revolutionaries, but they do not realize it and believe that they are working for 'progress.'...but that which they call justice is the triumph of Jewish principles in the world of which the two extremes are plutocracy and socialism. Present day Anti-Semitism is a revolt against the world of today, the product of Judaism.” WorldBelieveTwoTodaySpiritRealizingJusticePrinciplesProgressProductsEssenceJewExtremesSocialismTendenciesTriumphRevolutionaryJudaismMisunderstandingRevoltPresent DayAnti SemitismPlutocracyTwo Extremes Author:Leon V. DePoncins