Eric Ries Quotes

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The winner of the next war will be he who learns the most and learns the fastest.

When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

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.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

I'm always learning new ways to improve my game from both players older and younger than me.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.