795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“Every single time the voice in your head is wrong.”
“If you can really do a gratitude practice on the thing that you lack, there's a superpower in that one, changes everything.”
“Sometimes maybe ignorance is sort of bliss and you just discover new things.”
“I would look at, do the co-founders get along? Are these people committed?”
“I look back fondly when we first started of it was the most fun time of my life.”
“You cannot learn tennis by reading about tennis, or by watching a movie about Serena or Venus Williams. You have to actually get out on the court and do it.”
“The realities of what it takes to get power bear almost no resemblance to what you're taught in Sunday school.”
“If you want power to be used for good, more good people need to have power.”
“Surviving is a precursor to thriving.”
“You can keep going and the world's going to keep spinning.”
“In business and in startups, everything's negotiable.”
“You need to vision cast, you need to sell to a gap, don't sell to a problem.”
“The best clients are not going to do that to you. If they're sitting there nickel-and-diming you, they're not fully bought in on what you're selling them.”
“Don't be better. Be different.”
“It's about the application of it and about the nuance of it, and I think that's what product is ultimately sort of all about too.”
“Understanding and defining what problem matters is the most important skill that I think I've taken away.”
“I think taking a product mindset where I meet people all the time now where I don't really know exactly what role they're necessarily going to fill, I'm not really sure about exactly their seniority, maybe they don't have a lot of experience, but maybe they would just totally be a rockstar on our product team.”
“They don't care about you. They care about their reader or their listener or their viewer.”
“If you think that press by itself is going to solve your problems, you're wrong.”
“Opportunity set B is where growth happens and where you push yourself in different directions.”
