Product Management Quotes

“As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.” -- Eric Ries

"Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like." -- Brian Chesky

“It’s not the customer’s job to solve their own problems. It’s your job to ask them the right questions.” -- Melissa Perri

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever -- Brian Chesky

The cold truth is that the best products don't always win. Many times it's the products that have the ability to keep users coming back and using them without conscious thought and using them out of habit are the ones that keep us coming back -- Nir Eyal

"It's not the customer's job to know what they want." -- Steve Jobs

"Our customers don’t care about the majority of our feature releases" -- Teresa Torres

"Measure lots of things, set goals for a few of them, incentivize even fewer" -- Shreyas Doshi

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." -- Mark Zuckerberg

"A product manager's most important job is to focus on what not to build." -- Melissa Perri

"Your product should be an answer to your customers' problems, not a question." -- John Zeratsky

"It's not enough to have a good idea; you must execute it with excellence." -- Reid Hoffman

"The best products don't focus on features; they focus on clarity." -- Jon Bolt

"Make every detail perfect, and limit the number of details to perfect." -- Jack Dorsey

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do. -- Brian Chesky

"The Lindy Effect for startups: the longer you go without shipping product, the more likely you will never ship product" -- Naval Ravikant

"Before you pivot your product, consider seriously if you should pivot your target customer segment(s)" -- Shreyas Doshi

"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers." -- Seth Godin

"Good product managers know what to build. Great product managers know why they are building it." -- Ben Horowitz

"There’s a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product" -- Steve Jobs