795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“We all have a very active hand in creating the world that we live in.”
“Everything is led by imagination. That imagination is the very first step of that creative process.”
“Falling down over and over again and getting up and trying again, the importance of hard work and determination.”
“I think in my younger days, I was a little crippled by overthinking and by being too anxious about things and not taking big leaps.”
“It's really about helping the product managers focus on what they were actually hired for, the strategic work.”
“If you try to serve everybody, you serve no one.”
“We need to look at psychological safety in that team or we're never going to get to some of these bigger, bolder, more innovative ideas.”
“Get out there, keep doing it, do it over and over and over again. You will get better.”
“The opposite of play is fear.”
“Getting attention, just going to market and getting attention for a startup is the kind of P0 for any of those interactions.”
“It's not like it's better for anyone to be in a homogenous group. I think it's actually better for everyone to be in a more diverse group because the sort of baseline for how you treat each other goes up.”
“The fundamentals of their businesses might not even look a lot better, but when you're in that room, you feel so differently about it. So I think how much really the founder matters.”
“The physics of working on computers are so great, you should be able to basically just move everything around, do everything that you want to do.”
“We think a lot about how you set up a team to be able to make new stuff, in addition to continuing to improve the stuff that you have right now.”
“I think it's going to be more consequential than the internet, I think it's going to be more consequential than any shift in tech that we've seen since the advent of computers.”
“It's a very special and rare thing, and it gives me a superpower as a leader because I can lean on that when I'm ringing the oil out of somebody who's in the bored and tired zone.”
“If you want to accomplish something truly extraordinary, if you want to be in the 99th percentile in terms of outcomes, it's going to be really difficult.”
“The extraordinary effort thing is a reminder that it's supposed to be really fricking exhausting.”
“The magic lies in the way people work together.”
“At the end of the day, it is those business critical outcomes against which you and your team will be evaluated.”
