Quotes
Words that stick with me.
“For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
“Life is not short. We just waste a lot of it.”
“The solution to any problem lies squarely deep within the problem.”
“Controlling your time is the highest dividend money pays.”
“Through expression we meet ourselves.”
“The trouble with market research is that people don't think what they feel, they don't say what they think, and they don't do what they say.”
“Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others.”
“Truth — or, more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality — is the essential foundation for any good outcome.”
“Reasons are well-packaged excuses.”
“All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.”
“You become that which you are most consistently exposed to.”
“The best product managers are truth seekers, not politicians.”
“Planning is important, but the most important part of every plan is to plan on the plan not going according to plan.”
“You're not going to get very far in life on the basis of what you already know.”
“Wisdom is discerning what truly matters.”
“Self-aware people find joy in feeling like they are growing. Self-unaware people find joy in feeling like they are validated.”
“The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“Things that have never happened before happen all the time.”
“Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.”
“If we allow the world to be run by logical people, we will only discover logical things. But in real life, most things aren't logical — they are psycho-logical.”
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
“The first rule of compounding: Never interrupt it unnecessarily.”
“If today were the last day of your life, would you do what you were going to do today?”
“Success is not money or fame or power. Success is time-optionality.”
“The things that we understand create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion.”
“The things that you do greatest are the things that you know not how you do.”
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
“The really great person will keep on going and find the key, underlying principle of the problem.”
“That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it.”
“Escape competition through authenticity.”
“Smart people do not have a bias to action. They have a bias to impact. In order to create impact, they act.”
“Identify your peak productive time of day and guard it like your most valuable asset, because it truly is.”
“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.”
“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”
“Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.”
“Happiness is reality meeting expectations.”
“Earn with your mind, not your time.”
“The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.”
“Ultimately, it comes down to taste. Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and bring those into what you're doing.”
“Many pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.”
“Problems have causes, symptoms, and solutions. Most teams ignore causes, see symptoms, and seek solutions. The best teams, when they see symptoms, look to causes instead of solutions.”
“Where your fear is, there is your task.”
“If you don't love it, you're going to fail.”
“For a business to be truly customer-focused, it needs to ignore what people say. Instead it needs to concentrate on what people feel.”
“I don't care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing.”
“A majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do.”
“It is always now.”
“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves.”
“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
“Recognize reality even when you don't like it.”
“We confuse happiness with status.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.”
“Good PMs make metrics-driven product decisions. Great PMs make metrics-informed product decisions.”