Eric Ries Quotes

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.

A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, 'You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,' cuz my hustle led to opportunity.

Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

A lot of entrepreneurship is seeing the future in a way that no one else sees it. Then, it becomes about execution and doing what it takes to succeed.