795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“Your job is not just to keep people going on momentum. Your job is to make momentum.”
“If you can get people excited behind a vision and storytelling, it again kind of carries through that cross-functional work.”
“Sometimes you just need to rip the bandaid and you need to go for it.”
“Treat people like human beings, build rapport, play the long game, and gain trust.”
“It's really easy when you've got a quota to hit and you've got people to provide for and a mortgage to just think about the numbers, but you have to play the long game because people aren't just a commodity.”
“You never want to put yourself in a position where you have no idea what good looks like.”
“If you want to build an enduring business, you need to be able to architect towards profitable growth.”
“Good founders need to be able to dominate both market share and wallet share. It is not a choice.”
“The winners in AI will need to master monetization from day one.”
“All success comes from an extraordinary amount of pain and struggle and hard work, and there is no shortcut to anything material coming in life.”
“The best way to love yourself is to keep evolving.”
“You should wish for your life to be so great that you have collected the highest amount of content when you are old.”
“Interviews are good at predicting affinity and culture fit.”
“We should all be skeptical that budgeting would actually work to change the behavior that you're trying to get to.”
“Behavior change isn't easy. It's complex. It's hard. It's noisy.”
“I realized that management really matters, and that to be good at it, you have to care about other people.”
“When we get better at radical candor, we build better relationships and we do better work and we're more successful and we're happier.”
“You do not have to choose between being successful and being a jerk. You can be a successful kind person.”
“Whoever is accountable for the results should also be the decider.”
“In Indonesia and in Southeast Asia, there are a lot of these things that are obviously broken and could be improved with better technology and better products.”
