795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“I don't think you're a good PM if you haven't shipped something that's really shitty.”
“You can inflict change on people, but if you want to do it with them, really trust is the key element there.”
“You can't do homework. You can't do exercises. You can't do fake stuff. You have to work on real products at real companies with real customers, with real data to get better at product management.”
“You need to connect dots, so you do need different data points from different types of product work and different types of organizations.”
“What matters is the end result, the end product, the end feeling.”
“I think that economics is generally valuable for a lot of different challenges and it's a useful perspective to add to things, especially in a business context.”
“I truly enjoy it. It's what I get out of especially work. And then it's my community.”
“I've found especially endurance sports are much more mental and how you go through the highs and lows and sustain and then coming back from challenge.”
“There's significant misinformation on AEO.”
“You don't have to be the smartest, you have to be sufficiently smart.”
“You can get mentioned by a citation tomorrow and start showing up immediately.”
“Whenever I have a difficult conversation I start it off, hey, this is going to be a difficult conversation.”
“Real news is information that changes what you do in the real world. And if you don't change what you're doing, what you are doing is just getting entertainment.”
“In B2B we lose about 40% of our deals to, 'No decision,' which actually means we lost to the spreadsheet, we lost to pen and paper, we lost to interns.”
“Life is short. I'm just so aware that time ticks by and we all live on autopilot.”
“The way that greatness is created is that you find a CEO who's willing to make brave hard decisions and own the results.”
“AI is going to disrupt in the most aggressive violent ways. If you're not in it, you're about to get kicked out of all of it.”
“The more that you can validate the business through things that's not just you doing personally that other people are doing, I think the better.”
“I think doing B2B PR is very different from doing consumer PR.”
“You can still be really opinionated in life, but that doesn't mean you always are going to be right.”
