The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.