A batch of the best highlights from what Louis's read, .
All the idealism of mankind, hitherto, is on the point of turning into Nihilism—may be shown to be a belief in absolute worthlessness, i.e. purposelessness.
The Will to Power
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Blank has developed what he calls a Customer-Development Process, based on the idea that startups should apply the scientific method just as scientists do: Start with a hypothesis, test it, and prove it—or move on to further iterations of the hypothesis if it proves incorrect.
Tren Griffin - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
2017, Columbia University Press
His Autobiography backs up his assertions, but only by carefully editing out a critical period in his business career. From 1866, when he returned from his yearlong tour of Europe, to 1872, when he entered the steel business, Carnegie would accumulate the fortune that was later reinvested in his steel mills by doing precisely what he would later condemn: buying and selling shares in companies whose assets he knew were worth far less than the value of their stock.