Eric Ries Quotes

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

It's tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there's a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we've already set out.

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.

o, I don't want to say it's mine. Certainly, I'm leading, there's no question about that. But we have got a long way to go.

Stop sketching. Start building.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.

Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.

When you don't know what to do, do something. I know you don't know what to do and I know you can't do everything right now, but you can do something.

Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.