"You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom."
-Eric Ries
wisdomView Quote
"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
posted in failure
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years."
-Eric Ries
technologyView Quote
"Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway."
-Eric Ries
scienceView Quote
"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
scienceView Quote
"Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance."
-Eric Ries
medicalView Quote
"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
learningView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
-Aldrich Ames
failureView Quote
"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."
-Craig Breedlove
failureView Quote
"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
-Tony Richardson
failureView Quote
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
-Edward Eggleston
failureView Quote
"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
-Arthur C. Danto
failureView Quote
"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."
-Michael Savage
failureView Quote