Getting Started in Product

Product related roles have grown considerably over the past five years, which means an influx of people who are starting out in a new skills area. Getting Started in Product aims to support these people make the transition.

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10 Product Management Quotes To Help Your Career

2 min readFeb 6, 2025

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Why do we love a quote?

You read it. Something clicks in your brain and you have a realization of a fundamental truth.

They are sage pieces of advice which you can use to help you make your choices. The kind of thing Yoda might say.

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All about the role of a product manager

Marty Cagan, Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group

The role of a product manager is to discover a product that is valuable, usable, and feasible.

Steven Haines, best selling author and founder

Product people are business people, first and foremost. They work across functions and serve to integrate or synchronize the work of others so that products and portfolios can be planned, developed, launched and managed.

Jon Stross, Founder Greenhouse.io

A great product manager is like the oil that makes everything go well and bad product management is the sand that makes everything stop.

Deep Nishar, Senior Managing Partner at Softbank Investment Advisors

A great product manager has the brain of an engineer, the heart of a designer

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Getting Started in Product
Getting Started in Product

Published in Getting Started in Product

Product related roles have grown considerably over the past five years, which means an influx of people who are starting out in a new skills area. Getting Started in Product aims to support these people make the transition.

Robert Drury
Robert Drury

Written by Robert Drury

Helping people kick start their product management career with job application prep & CV prep at https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjdrury/