The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

The essence of true giving is to give without expectation of receiving anything in return.

In the Lean Startup model, we are rehabilitating learning with a concept I call validated learning. Validated learning is the process of demonstrating empirically that a team has discovered valuable truths about a startup’s present and future business prospects.

People do not see the world as it is; they see it as they are—or as they have been conditioned to be.

Great habits are the ladder of success you can climb to the peak of your potential.

Design and systemize your machine. Creativity is also important to this process, as is character, because the most important problems to design around are often the hardest, and you need to come up with original ways of addressing them and be willing to make hard choices.

Measuring what matters begins with the question: What is most important for the next three (or six, or twelve) months? Successful organizations focus on the handful of initiatives that can make a real difference, deferring less urgent ones.

Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

Seek authenticity in your leadership through your life experiences

The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.