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“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“What's measured improves”
― Peter Drucker

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

“We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success

“Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop is at the core of the Lean Startup model.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success

“In the Lean Startup model, an experiment is more than just a theoretical inquiry; it is also a first product.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success

“Startup, I have always been a bit of a troublemaker at the companies at which I have worked, pushing for rapid iteration, data-driven decision making, and early customer involvement.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."

(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)”
― J.B.S. Haldane

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
― Anonymous

“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design”
― Dieter Rams

“As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.”
― Don DeLillo