10 Product Management Quotes

(1) “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure” — Bill Gates

(2) “Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision” — Marissa Mayer, Yahoo

(3) “Keep the focus on the minimal product. More on this later, but your job as a product manager is not to define the ultimate product. It’s to define the smallest possible product that will meet your goals.” — Marty Cagan, Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love

(4) “A great product manager has the brain of an engineer, the heart of a designer, and the speech of a diplomat.” — Deep Nishar

(5) “Quite simply, it’s the product manager’s job to articulate two simple things: What game are we playing? How do we keep score?” — Adam Nash

(6) “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” — Bill Gates

(7) “Software projects can be thought of as having two distinct stages: 1) Figuring out what to build — build the right product. 2) Building it — building the product right. The first stage is dominated by product discovery, The second stage is all about execution. “ — Marty Cagan, Inspired: How to create products customers love

(8) “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on, but that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas” — Steve Jobs

(9) “Be stubborn on vision but flexible on details” — Jeff Bezos, Amazon

(10) “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations” — Steve Jobs, Apple

Maayan Galperin,

Product Manager