795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“The definition of success does belong to the client. I don't have an agenda.”
“You are interviewing a potential employer. What do you want? What do you care about?”
“Life's too short to work with people you don't really enjoy.”
“It only takes one yes. But you got to keep going.”
“If you're really a founder, you just have to find a way. You have to keep going.”
“We would be so lucky to have tech debt because that means people are using the product.”
“M&A is always about creating plan Bs.”
“Perfect doesn't exist and you should instead go with good enough.”
“You are nothing like the user. You are nothing like them in ways that will bias the way you think about what's good and bad in your product.”
“If there's one thing I could ask your listeners to do is to get next to your researcher.”
“We don't validate, we falsify. We are looking to be wrong.”
“To be a founder is a state of being, it's an attitude. To be a CEO is a craft.”
“Phase one is build something people want to buy. Phase two is now you have to build a company around that thing people want to buy.”
“There is only one life. Stop assuming that there are these pretend walls between them or among them.”
“Emotional regulation is still really, really, really important.”
“True freedom is you can pick the things that are hard and you can feel pride in becoming the thing that you want to be.”
“Technology makes things a lot easier, but how do we continue to be the kind of people that want to take on the freedom of doing challenging things?”
“Quality is so hard to define. If you actually start thinking about it, it's like, how do you define it? It's really hard to pin down, but it's like when you try something or see it, then you know if it's quality or not.”
“Cooperation only happens if people use the product, and our product is supposed to help the cooperation.”
“Sometimes you have too much urgency and you are rushing things, and what happens is that you rushed it and now you need to come back to fix it.”
