Steve Blank Quotes

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

For some time past I have conscious that I was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result.

One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there's lots of duplication in government. But when you ask someone, 'OK, name two programs that are duplicative,' typically there's a long pause.

Time bandits come at all hours, wanting conversations, wasting conversations, wanting meetings, wasting meetings, and all with no purpose.

If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.

Politics is a waste of time.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

Expose widespread waste and duplication in federal spending.

A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

The 'Net is a waste of time.

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.