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Product Management Quotes

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Brian de Haaff
“Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice.”
Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It

“In our factories, we create flexibility by paying more to workers who can work at more stations on a production line. We value flexibility, and we pay for it. In contrast, most product development organizations exclusively reward specialization.”
Donald G. Reinertsen, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

Gayle Laakmann McDowell
“One reason product management is such an appealing career is you get to sit at the intersection of technology, business, and design.”
Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology

Harrington Emerson
“Efficiency brings about greater results with lessened effort; strenuousness brings about greater results with abnormally greater effort”
Harrington Emerson, Twelve Principles of Efficiency

Kate   O'Neill
“Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.”
Kate O'Neill, Lessons from Los Gatos: How Working at a Startup Called Netflix Made Me a Better Entrepreneur

Des Traynor
“If you ask why enough times, eventually you'll work it out and get to the root cause.”
Des Traynor, Intercom on Product Management

Des Traynor
“There are no tiny features when you’re doing things properly. This is why as a product manager you need a good understanding of what it takes to implement a feature before you nod your head and add it to the roadmap.”
Des Traynor, Intercom on Product Management

Harrington Emerson
“Efficiency, like hygiene, is a state, an ideal, not a method;”
Harrington Emerson, Twelve Principles of Efficiency

“If you're not constantly testing, you're going to be tested constantly.”
Henry Joseph-Grant

Brian de Haaff
“Caring and a sense of purpose evoke better performance than pressure and fear. The idea that only obsessive egomaniacs can produce breakthroughs is nonsense.”
Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It

Brian de Haaff
“Commerce does not have to be a ruthless, brutal enterprise that damages people’s lives. It can be a source of happiness, healing, and hope.”
Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It

Brian de Haaff
“Lovability — the capacity to earn genuine, heartfelt love and loyalty from customers — is the secret ingredient that propels a select few organizations ahead and leads not only to consistent growth and profitability but sustainable happiness for everyone involved.”
Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It

Brian de Haaff
“Lovable products, services, and companies are disrupting entire industries. They are changing the world.”
Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It

“You can't deliver the future, if you are not in the future”
Mack Craft

“Always stay 100 steps ahead of your competition. You can't deliver the future, if you are not in the future.”
Mack Craft

“Think Ahead!! You can't deliver the future, if you are not in the future.”
Mack Craft

“You can’t deliver the future, if you’re not in the future.”
Mack Craft

Brad Smith
“While you're fixing what's broke, don't break what's fixed.”
Brad Smith

Blair Reeves
“Navigating an enterprise requires a bit more skill specialization than a product manager inside of a smaller organization. Above all else, an enterprise product manager needs: communication, scope management, and business acumen.”
Blair Reeves, Building Products for the Enterprise: Product Management in Enterprise Software

“Customer data and feedback are your most reliable assets, don't ignore them, and use them wisely.”
Jubin Kothari

Nir   Eyal
“People don’t appreciate that they can always buy growth, but you can’t buy engagement, it has to be built into the product. Unless you have a crappy product, it’s much more cost effective to spend resources on keeping existing customers than finding new”
Nir Eyal

Eddy Vermeulen
“A launch plan should touch every single aspect of the “whole product customer experience,” where “whole” and “customer” should be considered in the broadest way possible.”
Eddy Vermeulen, Practical Product Management

Harrington Emerson
“As we rise in the line we find each higher grade legitimately existing solely for the benefit of what is before.”
Harrington Emerson

Kavita Ganesan
“Successful AI initiatives start with the right problems, but the right problems don’t necessarily come from your data scientists. They can come from leaders, domain experts, and innovators who sit close to the daily business challenges in your organization. Still, it takes practice to develop the vision for spotting AI opportunities...”
Kavita Ganesan, The Business Case for AI: A Leader's Guide to AI Strategies, Best Practices & Real-World Applications

“Great products are made on weekends.”
Kaniskar

“Don't just think "mobile first". Think "search first", and invest in instrumenting search metrics on your website and within your product to see what users are looking for and what they are not able to find.”
Alistair Croll, Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Nikki Elizabeth
“A product manager follows a product through its lifecycle, working with engineers and marketers alike to identify strengths, narrow in on which features could use refinement, and analyze data to determine the best possible audience.”
Nikki Elizabeth, Poor Vinnie's Valor

“Creating a new product is like the worst game of telephone anybody ever played.”
Derrick Boudwin

“If the product manager you’re working with has never brought a product to market, then thats kind of a non-starter because there’s elements to inheriting an existing product and keeping it going versus Greenfield and bringing it all the way into market.”
Derrick Boudwin

“Building software isn't like building anything else.”
Derrick Boudwin

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